[FWD: Hungarian Notaries]

[John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

FYI


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Hungarian Notaries
> From: "Winters, Roger" <Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV>
> Date: Wed, July 19, 2006 9:06 am
> To: <jmessing@law-on-line.com>
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>  Hello, John, 
>  The following item was in the Washington Policy Brief put out by ARMA, International. I thought it might be of interest to you.   
>  Notaries Adopt e-Signatures in Hungary  Public notaries in Hungary are now allowed to use an electronic signature to certify digital documents. Documents certified using the new procedure will now have the same legal validity as those stamped with a traditional seal.    According to new regulations, electronic documents will henceforth require both an electronic signature and a time stamp to be legally valid. The time stamp will serve as evidence that a document existed at a given time, and will make it possible to trace when the content was last amended.    The new system was created by the Hungarian National Chamber of Public Notaries and is designed to meet stringent security standards.   ARMA International Washington Policy Brief, July 2007     Roger Winters Program and Project Manager and Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Coordinator King County Department of Judicial Administration 516 Third Ave. E-609 MS:KCC-JA-0609 Seattle, WA 98104 V: (206) 296-7838 F: (206) 296-0906 roger.winters@metrokc.gov