2014 年 7 月 23 日，歐盟公布第 910/2014 號規章「歐盟內部市場電子交易之電子身分驗證及信賴服務」(Regulation No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions in the Internal Market and Repealing Directive 1999/93/EC, "eIDAS"，以下簡稱本規章)，法規之訂定為解決歐盟電子簽章指令 (Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 Dec. 1999 on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures) 僅就電子簽章為定義及提供憑證服務應具備之條件之規範不足之處.......