Swiss Civil Code

¹ The can­tons may au­thor­ise the au­then­tic­at­ing of­fi­cials to make elec­tron­ic cop­ies of the pub­lic deeds that they is­sue.

² They may also au­thor­ise the au­then­tic­at­ing of­fi­cials to cer­ti­fy elec­tron­ic­ally that the elec­tron­ic cop­ies that they cre­ate cor­res­pond to the ori­gin­al doc­u­ments on pa­per and that the sig­na­tures are genu­ine.

³ The au­then­tic­at­ing of­fi­cial must use a qual­i­fied elec­tron­ic sig­na­ture based on a qual­i­fied cer­ti­fic­ate from a re­cog­nised pro­vider of cer­ti­fic­a­tion ser­vices in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 2016⁷⁹¹ on Elec­tron­ic Sig­na­tures.⁷⁹²

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions that guar­an­tee the in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity of com­puter sys­tems and the in­teg­rity, au­then­ti­city and se­cur­ity of the data.