iNotary is a service that brings to life the electronic signature (ES). The „Zákon č. 227/2000 Sb. O elektronickém podpise“– The Czech ES act – deals somewhat non-responsibly with the question of using the ES in Czech practice. The way ES is defined in the act makes it practically dead. We hope, that the novel will be approved soon. Several possibilities appeared for those who wanted to use the ES – from complaining about the imperfect legislative, to particular ways that could, in case of a legal argument, give the officially appointed experts a material for řešení??to solve the holes in the laws.

What is one of the main problems of the act? If we forget the fact that it doesn’t define the certification policies for communication with the government administration, which is currently being solved by the Department Ministry of Informatics of the Czech governmentRepublic, then it is necessary to say that in time. In the legal standard it is stated what the electronic signature is. Basically it is a good study that explains the principles of the ES. But more must be expected of the standard – to set and provide really good principles and conditions for using it.

Let’s go through a short example of where can the Czech user fail in the ES experience: The certificates for the ES’s are issued with a certain validity period. Let’s say that our partner and we have this period set to 1 year. If we decide to sign contracts electronically, we have to re-sign all the contracts regularly after this period. Why? Nobody is able to prove that our contracts were signed within the validity period of our certificates and after the expiration our signatures can’t be trusted.

There is a countless amount of similar situations (virtual auctions, electronic shops, etc.) The solution is to use services of the electronic notary (EN) - iNotary. Its services basically ensure a fast anchorage of the documents in time, so that it is possible to go back to determine the time of their creation.