eIDAS Regulation
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Chapter I – General provisions
Chapter II – Electronic identification
Chapter III – Trust services
Chapter IV – Electronic documents
Chapter V – Delegations of power and implementing provisions
Chapter VI – Final provisions
Recitals (77)
Annexes
Recital 53
(53) The suspension of qualified certificates is an established operational practice of trust service providers in a number of Member States, which is different from revocation and entails the temporary loss of validity of a certificate. Legal certainty calls for the suspension status of a certificate to always be clearly indicated. To that end, trust service providers should have the responsibility to clearly indicate the status of the certificate and, if suspended, the precise period of time during which the certificate has been suspended. This Regulation should not impose the use of suspension on trust service providers or Member States, but should provide for transparency rules when and where such a practice is available.