The services “Digital Document Certificate” and “Digital Certificate of Private Agreement” are available from Friday. These are two new services that allow citizens to digitally certify their signature on any kind of document or contract and come to frame the emblematic services of the digital version of Responsible Declaration and Authorization.
This completes the full digitization of services related to the authenticity of the signature for all private documents drawn up by citizens and businesses, as announced by the Ministry of Digital Government.
The new services were presented to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis by the political leadership of the Ministry of Digital Government on Friday morning. As the Minister of State and Digital Government Kyriakos Pierrakakis analyzed in the presentation, the “Digital Document Certificate” concerns documents with one signatory and the “Digital Certificate of Private Agreement” documents with two or more co-signatories.
The two new services together with the digital version of the Authorization and Responsible Declaration are available at docs.gov.gr, which will henceforth function as the gathering point of all services for the certification of genuine signature. They are also accessible through gov.gr, in the section “Citizen and everyday life”. The platform was implemented by the National Network of Technology and Research Infrastructures (EDYTE SA – GRNET), a supervised body of the Ministry of Digital Government.
The operation of the two services is very simple. Initially, in order to be identified, the citizen follows the same steps as those required to complete an Authorization or Responsible Declaration, ie it is authenticated:
-or through Taxisnet codes, if the citizen has a confirmed mobile phone number,
-or with the web banking codes (National Bank of Greece, Piraeus Bank, Alpha Bank, Eurobank, Attica Bank, Pancretan Bank, Epirus Bank, Karditsa Cooperative Bank, Central Macedonia Bank, Chania Bank or Deposits and Loans Fund).
The citizen then posts in pdf format the document in which he wants to certify his signature. The process is completed as soon as you fill in the one-time code (OTP – One Time Password), which is sent to the mobile phone number you have declared. Immediately after, the document is registered in its box at my.gov.gr and is available for storage, printing or sending to a public body.
In cases where the document is signed by more than one person, the first user enters the VAT number and the name of the co-signatories, who get the opportunity to sign the document following the same steps. When the process is completed by the last co-signer, then the document appears digitally confirmed in their mailboxes at my.gov.gr.
The digital certificate of the original signature (s) is placed at the end of each document created by the two new services. In addition, the unique code and QR code of the document are listed at the bottom of each page, so that it can be easily checked for validity. The verification is done through docs.gov.gr/validate. In this way, the security of transactions and the reliability of documents that are circulated both between citizens and between citizens and the State are strengthened.
The service of the private contract starts by supporting up to two co-signatories. In the next few days, the possibility for more persons will be added, as well as the possibility for the text of the digital certificate to be displayed in English.
It is recalled that the authorization and the responsible statement were the first services designed in the new environment of gov.gr and put into operation in March 2020. Since then, more than 6 million authorizations and responsible statements have been prepared electronically, saving an equal number of visits to KEP or Police Departments.
The presentation was also attended by the Minister of State, George Gerapetritis, the Minister of State, responsible for the Coordination of Governmental Work, Akis Skertsos, the Deputy Minister of Digital Government, responsible for simplification of procedures, the Minister for Telecommunications, George The Land Registry, Theodoros Livanios, the General Secretary of Information Systems of Public Administration, Demosthenes Anagnostopoulos, the General Secretary of Digital Governance and Simplification of Procedures, Leonidas Christopoulos, the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, Dimitris Tsiodras.
Source From: Capital
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