The present list is the TSL implementation of Greek “Trusted List of supervised/accredited Certification Service Providers” providing information about the supervision/accreditation status of certification services from Certification Service Providers (CSPs) who are supervised/accredited by GREECE for compliance with the relevant provisions of Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures.

The Trusted List aims at:

• listing and providing reliable information on the supervision/accreditation status of certification services from Certification Service Providers, who are supervised/accredited by [name of the relevant Member State] for compliance with the relevant provisions laid down in Directive 1999/93/EC;
• facilitating the validation of electronic signatures supported by those listed supervised/accredited certification services from the listed CSPs.

The Trusted List of a Member State provides a minimum of information on supervised/accredited CSPs issuing Qualified Certificates in accordance with the provisions laid down in Directive 1999/93/EC (Art. 3.3, 3.2 and Art. 7.1(a)), including information on the QC supporting the electronic signature and whether the signature is or not created by a Secure Signature Creation Device.

The CSPs issuing Qualified Certificates (QCs) listed here are supervised by ΕΕΤΤ and may also be accredited for compliance with the provisions laid down in Directive 1999/93/EC, including with the requirements of Annex I (requirements for QCs), and those of Annex II (requirements for CSPs issuing QCs). The applicable ‘supervision’ system (respectively ‘voluntary accreditation’ system) is defined and must meet the relevant requirements of Directive 1999/93/EC, in particular those laid down in Art. 3.3, Art. 8.1, Art. 11 (respectively, Art.2.13, Art. 3.2, Art 7.1(a), Art. 8.1, Art. 11)

Additional information on other supervised/accredited CSPs not issuing QCs but providing services related to electronic signatures (e.g. CSP providing Time Stamping Services and issuing Time Stamp Tokens, CSP issuing non-Qualified certificates, etc.) are included in the Trusted List and the present TSL implementation at a national level on a voluntary basis.

ΕΕΤΤ is responsible for the supervision and control of all the CSPs established in Greece.

Although the legal framework for the Voluntary accreditation exists, in practice the voluntary accreditation procedure has not been activated.

In the current stage, the Trust List enlists the CSPs which are registered in EETT’s registry  as CSPs which, according to their  own statement, issue Qualified Certificates.

1. A CSP either accredited or not, which issues   a certificate as a qualified certificate to the public or by guaranteeing such a certificate to the public is liable for damage caused to any entity or legal or natural person who reasonably relies on that certificate:

   (a) as regards the accuracy at the time of issuance of all information contained in the qualified certificate and as regards the fact that the certificate contains all the details prescribed for a qualified certificate;

   (b) for assurance that at the time of the issuance of the certificate, the signatory identified in the qualified certificate held the signature-creation data corresponding to the signature-verification data given or identified in the certificate;

   (c) for assurance that the signature-creation data and the signature-verification data can be used in a complementary manner in cases where the certification-service-provider generates them both unless the certification-service-provider proves that he has not acted negligently.

2. A certification-service-provider who has issued a certificate as a qualified certificate to the public is liable for damage caused to any entity or legal or natural person who reasonably relies on the certificate for failure to register revocation of the certificate unless the certification-service-provider proves that he has not acted negligently.
3. A certification-service-provider may indicate in a qualified certificate limitations on the use of that certificate. provided that the limitations are recognisable to third parties. The certification-service-provider is not liable for damage arising from use of a qualified certificate which exceeds the limitations placed on it.
4. Α certification-service-provider may indicate in the qualified certificate a limit on the value of transactions for which the certificate can be used, provided that the limit is recognisable to third parties. The certification-service-provider is  not be liable for damage resulting from this maximum limit being exceeded.

The provisions of the above paragraphs 1 to 4 shall be without prejudice to law 2251/1994(A’191) as concerning the consumer protections and more specifically on unfair terms in consumer contracts. 

Trusted List of supervised/accredited Certification Service Providers - TSL (human readable form, .pdf file)

Trusted List of supervised/accredited Certification Service Providers - TSL (machine readable form, .xml file)