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[FYI] LU: Draft electronic commerce bill introduced
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- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:56:51 +0100
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9.2. Luxembourg Draft electronic commerce bill introduced
At the end of March 1999, the Luxembourg
government introduced the country's draft
bill on electronic commerce to Parliament.
Composed of 77 articles, this text adapts
national civil, commercial and penal law to
the electronic environment by also
implementing the EU directives 97/66/EC,
97/7/EEC and 93/13/EEC on privacy in
telecommunications, distance selling and
abusive clauses in consumer contracts. Its
declared purpose is to provide Luxembourg
with a secure and predictable framework for
electronic transactions in accordance with
international and European rules by
including a set of detailed provisions on
proof, electronic contracts, certification
authorities, digital certificates and
encryption standards.
While it allows the use of cryptography, it
recognises the same legal validity in both
electronic and hand-written signatures,
provided their integrity is adequately
guaranteed by digital certificates
delivered by accredited certification
authorities. The bill sets up a voluntary
accreditation system with the National
Accreditation and Surveillance Authority of
the Ministry of Economy being the public
body entrusted with this task. The
procedures and criteria of accreditation
are defined in three Grand Ducal
Regulations to be adopted with the law.
The draft bill can be accessed on the
Ministry of Economy web site at
http://www.etat.lu/ECO/
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