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The Council of Ministers approved on Wednesday at the proposal of the Minister of Finance and acting Spokesperson Cesar Marquina the Decree on Qualified Digitization which regulates the operation and activity of qualified digitization service providers. The entry into force is expected in six months from its publication in the Official Gazette of the Principality of Andorra BOPA and to facilitate the application of the decree the user guide has been prepared that can be found on the website of the National Accreditation Commission CNAC.Marquina explained that according to the Law on Electronic Certification and Trust the digitization of electronic documents is considered an electronic trust service when they constitute activities related to the creation verification and validation of electronic documents.An electronic trust service is qualified when the service guarantees authenticity integrity irrefutability and non-rejection and the date and time when the documents or information exist. For its part digitization is defined as the technological process that allows obtaining one or more electronic files that contain the encoded faithful and integral image of a document on paper through photoelectric scanning techniques or any other that may exist. Therefore digitization and in particular qualified digitization can become an important step during the transition period from paper-based procedures to the digital world.Thus as detailed by the acting Minister this decree regulates the homologation regime for qualified digitization service providers being able to approve both entities that want to provide the service for third parties and for themselves. Likewise the text establishes the qualified digitization procedure that allows the resulting documents to be considered as authentic copies and equivalent to the original paper documents and to be able to replace them.Approval of the Decree on qualified filingThe Government has also approved the Decree on Qualified Archiving which aims to specify the objectives of long-term digital preservation and conservation and define the basic functionalities that the archiving platform must meet in order to subtract a qualified archiving service. The entry into force is expected in six months from its publication in the BOPA and to facilitate the application of the decree the user guide has been drawn up that can be found on the website of the National Accreditation Commission CNAC.In accordance with the Law on Electronic Certification and Trust the custody and preservation of digital objects is considered an electronic trust service when they constitute activities related to the custody and conservation of electronic documents.An electronic trust service is qualified when it guarantees authenticity integrity irrefutability and non-rejection and the date and time when the documents or information exist.The aim of the qualified archiving service is to guarantee the long-term preservation and conservation of the digital objects that are stored through techniques and processes that guarantee the permanence of digital information while maintaining its fundamental characteristics of integrity authenticity and usability.
