THE ISSUANCE OF QUALIFIED CERTIFICATE AND PROVISION OF TRUST SERVICES FOR FOREIGNERS IN POLAND
POLISH NATIONAL CERTIFICATION CENTRE
The Polish National Certification Centre is an organisation which runs a list of trust services providers and qualified electronic signatures accepted in Poland. The legal frames of this institution functioning is provided by the Act of 5 September 2016 on Trust Services and Electronic Identification.
In the article 2 of this Act we can read that:
Art. 2. [Tasks of the minister]
The Polish minister responsible for the informatization ensures the functioning of the national trust infrastructure, which includes:
1) a register of trust service providers, hereinafter referred to as the “register”;
2) trusted list;
3) a national certification center.[1]
The Polish National Certification Centre tasks are included in Article 10 and this article is crucial for the trust services providers, because the National Certification Centre tasks include:
- The creation and issuing to qualified trust service providers the certificates for the verification of qualified electronic signatures and electronic seals;
- The publication of the certificates;
- The publication of revoked certificates lists.
