PEPPOl - Experience from four years work on esignature interoperability

Abstract

The PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line) project started May 2008 and lasted until end of August 2012. The aim of the project was to enable cross-border public procurement in the EU internal market. In most Member States, electronic tendering for public procurement requires use of qualified or advanced eSignature, meaning that cross-border e-tendering is only possible if eSignatures work cross-border. PEPPOL specified and implemented a validation service based solution for cross-border e-signatures. The focus is on the needs of the receiver of eSignatures (the relying party) as the actor that faces the major complexity. This paper sums up esperience from PEPPOU. work. © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2012.