Public Administration of the Future: Prof. Dr Robert Müller-Török takes stock after 20 years of the signature policy

On 13 December 1999, ‘Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures’, known as the Electronic Signatures Directive (SigRL) for short, was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities. To what extent have German public authorities been able to implement this over the past 20 years? – A look at the 16 state capitals of the Federal Republic.

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