Standards & legal regulations
Legally compliant signatures
SIGNAMUS enables you to sign easily your electronic invoices and documents in accordance with the legal regulations. This means that the signatures generated by SIGNAMUS are in accordance with the EU signature directive, the EU invoice guideline (2001-115-EG) and the strict requirements of the German signature law, and they can be used for the value added tax deduction throughout the European union and other countries. The AuthentiDate eBilling Signature Server, used by the SIGNAMUS service guarantees the legal signature compliance at any time based on the manufacturer declaration published by the German Federal Network Agency. In addition, the AuthentiDate eBilling Signature Server version 2.4.0 has been certified by the internationally recognized auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers with respect to the regulations of German accounting principles. (GoB, AO, HGB, GDPdU, etc.).
As an option, SIGNAMUS may also be used to sign electronic invoices for non-EU countries, such as Switzerland, the United States and others. If required, country specific individual legal requirements, i.e. special Swiss signature cards, shall be taken into account and implemented as required.
Standardized worldwide
A maximum long-term interoperability is achieved by the conformity of the SIGNAMUS services to current standards and specifications (Common-PKI/ISIS-MTT/PKIX). The use of worldwide, also by the W3C consortium, standardized protocols (such as SOAP, WebDAV, HTTPS) permits a simple and secure handling by the user independent of hardware, software or geography.
