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We recognize that people have had many years of experience in evaluating how reliable a handwritten signature is, and therefore are able to easily judge what types of handwritten signatures are prudent to be relied upon.

Paragraph 3 (a) of article 9 lays down general criteria for functional equivalence between handwritten signatures and electronic signatures.

As a result, the trial was adjourned for three days, with the lawyer permitted only to make handwritten notes.

However, many documents annexed to States' pleadings are old (sometimes even handwritten) and cannot be properly digitized and sent electronically.

However, the real problem with electronic signatures was that, without certain safeguards, they could be manipulated more easily than handwritten signatures.

The Working Group had therefore taken the view that equivalence between handwritten and electronic signatures should be assured by a sufficiently reliable method.

The Working Group was urged not to introduce, in connection with digital signatures, requirements more stringent than those that applied to handwritten signatures.

The party relying on a signature, whether handwritten or electronic, takes the risk that the signature is not valid or that it is a forgery.

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The Directive gives special legal status equivalence to a handwritten signature only to what it calls advanced electronic signatures', but it allows legal effect to others.

Questions of proof of the making of the signature (which exist for both handwritten and electronic signatures) should not distort the law on the validity of signatures.

Draft paragraph 3 (b) was not intended to confer legal validity on an electronic signature but simply to make it the functional equivalent of a handwritten signature.

As for statements made from handwritten notes, delegations should provide copies, even if they were rough notes, to the précis writers in order to facilitate their work.

Some contribution advice forms were not updated, and others were documented in handwritten notes or to be found elsewhere  for example, on manual spreadsheets created by staff members.

He pointed out that the validity of a handwritten signature could also be determined by a court after the fact if it was challenged by one of the parties.

Mr. Syed Aref Nassrollah was arrested on charges of smuggling 2,000 handwritten old books out of Iran, assisting people to leave the country illegally, and using a fake car plate.

In a paper based environment it might not be mandatory for a handwritten signature to be accompanied by a declaration on the limitations, if any, of the powers of its author.

Furthermore, it was stated that the rule contained in paragraph (2) appeared to impose on users of digital signatures a burden that went beyond existing requirements with respect to handwritten signatures.

It is noted that there is no such reliability requirement for the legal validity of handwritten signatures (or any of the other marks on paper that may constitute a signature at law).

In order to achieve functional equivalence between handwritten signatures and electronic signatures, there should not be any additional reliability requirement for electronic signatures as contained in paragraph 3 (b) of article 9.

It was indicated that, for example, the handwritten expression of such consent on the front of a transport document should be considered valid for the purposes of proposed draft article 88a (6)(b).

It was noted that technologies not based on public key cryptography and generally referred to as electronic signatures were also being developed with a view to fulfilling functions typically performed by handwritten signatures.

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The phrase A method is used to identify the party and to associate that party with the information contained in the electronic communication represents the minimum functional requirements of any signature, handwritten or electronic.

The Guide to Enactment text discussing the latter article notes that its aim is to promote reliance on electronic signatures for producing legal effect where such electronic signatures are functionally equivalent to handwritten signatures.

In the original claim file, the claimant submitted limited documentation including a personal statement, handwritten lists of spare parts, 1987 lease contracts for two stores and a rental receipt for each store dated in 1991.

A number of countries were considering the question of the appropriate legal regime for devices capable of performing, in an electronic environment, functions analogous to those of a handwritten signature in a paper based environment.

They must know three things They must have good handwriting, because the data is handwritten they must be able to read and they must be able to do multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in their head.

They were needed, inter alia, to assist States that were enacting new laws in determining what criteria an electronic signature had to fulfil in order to be equivalent to a handwritten signature and also to encourage the use of new technology.

The purpose of the draft convention was to indicate how a single set of rules of law should best be interpreted in the field of electronic communications and not to create a legal entity, an electronic signature, with a separate status from a handwritten signature.

According to draft paragraph 3 (a), the essence consisted in providing a means of identifying the signing party and of linking that party with the document signed, as in the case of a handwritten signature, for which no further standard of reliability was imposed.

Such functions ranged along what was referred to as a sliding scale from providing the highest degree of security (along the lines of notarized and other certified signatures in a paper based environment) to the low level of security offered by handwritten marks or signature stamps.

(b) Deleting paragraph 3 (b) of article 9 of the draft Convention (A CN.9 577), to achieve functional equivalence between handwritten signatures and electronic signatures, and to avoid the unintended difficulties that would be created by the inclusion of the general legal reliability requirement in paragraph 3 (b).

The question of the legal regime of devices used for performing functions equivalent to handwritten signatures, such as digital and other forms of electronic signatures, was found to be one of the most important issues that needed to be addressed so as to strengthen the legal infrastructure for electronic commerce.

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That is the purpose of paragraph 3, which is expected to create certainty (through either a presumption or a substantive rule), at or before the time any such technique of electronic signature is used (ex ante), that using a recognised technique will result in legal effects equivalent to those of a handwritten signature.

Desiring to build on the fundamental principles underlying article 7 of the Model Law on Electronic CommerceResolution 51 162, annex. with respect to the fulfilment of the signature function in an electronic environment, with a view to promoting reliance on electronic signatures for producing legal effect where such electronic signatures are functionally equivalent to handwritten signatures,

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It should be noted that under paragraph 3 of article 9, which originated from article 7, paragraph 1, of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, the mere signing of an electronic communication by means of a functional equivalent of a handwritten signature is not intended, in and of itself, to confer legal validity on the data message.

There was general agreement that, consistent with media neutrality in the Model Law, the uniform rules to be developed by the Working Group should not discourage the use of any technique that would provide a method as reliable as appropriate as an alternative to handwritten and other paper based signatures in compliance with article 7 of the Model Law.