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[Ezer Farhi]

Hello Pim and Detlef, The publication of [2003/511/EC] is aimed to list or refer to acceptable standards, but the EU members are not forced to use the listed standards (CWA-14169). For example you can look at the following link to Italian legislation that is based on the EU directive at http://www.cnipa.gov.it/site/_files/Opuscolo%2013II.pdf on section 35 it says: "The national scheme can also provide evaluation And certification with respect to additional European and international criteria, Also on other systems and products related to the field". As I mentioned in the conference call yesterday, a centralized approach for digital signatures are used for qualified signatures in other EU member countries. Even tough one of the CoSign models is based on an internal array of SSCD smartcards (similar to the approach raised by Detlef), the centralized solution may not require using internal array of SSCD smartcards. Regards, Ezer