At the request of the Council, the European Commission has proposed a Directive to provide a Community framework for electronic signatures. It is not the intent of this Directive to cover the whole domain of applications of authentication, but rather to focus on the legal validity of electronic signatures. In relation to the legal recognition of electronic signatures the Directive (approved on 13 December 1999, and published in the EC Official Journal) identifies minimal requirements for certificates, certification service providers and signature creation and verification devices.

Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures

This directive has been transposed to the greek legislation with the presidential decree 150/2001 and additionally, EETT has published in 2002 one initial regulation dealing with certification service provision issues "Regulation on the Provision of Electronic Signature Certification Services", Decision 248/71 (FEK Issue 603/B/16-5-2002)" .

Regulation on the Designation of Bodies for the Conformity Assessment of Secure-Signature-Creation Devices and Secure Cryptographic Modules and on the Designation of Bodies for the Conformity Assessment of Certification Service Providers using the Voluntary Accreditation Criteria, Decision of the Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission under the Protocol No. 295/63.

Regulation on the Conformity Assessment of Secure Signature Creation Devices and Secure Cryptographic Modules, Decision of the Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission under the Protocol No. 295/64.

Regulation on the Voluntary Accreditation of Certification Service Providers, Decision of the Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission under the Protocol No. 295/65.

Decision of the Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission under the Protocol No. 308/37/2004 for the selection of technological solution for the implementation of the Voluntary Accreditation scheme.

Commission Decision of 16.10.2009 setting out measures facilitating the use of procedures by electronic means through the ‘points of single contact’ under Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market.