CHAPTER III

TRUST SERVICES
SECTION 3

Qualified trust services

Trusted list
Article 22
1
The Secretary of State must make arrangements for the maintenance and publication of a trusted list, containing information relating to qualified trust service providers and the qualified trust services provided by them.
2
The arrangements must provide for the maintenance and publication of the trusted list, in a secured manner, in a form that is electronically signed or sealed and suitable for automated processing.
3
The arrangements must provide for a body to be responsible for the maintenance and publication of the trusted list.
4
The arrangements may provide for the trusted list to include information relating to trust service providers established in the United Kingdom that do not have qualified status, and the trust services provided by them. Where the arrangements do so, they must also provide for the list to indicate clearly which providers and services are not qualified.
5
The arrangements must provide for the publication, in a form that is electronically signed or sealed and suitable for automated processing, of:
a
information on the body referred to in paragraph 3, and
b
details of where the trusted list is published, the certificates used to sign or seal the list, and any changes thereto.
6
The trusted list maintained under this Article is initially to consist of the information that was in the list maintained immediately before exit day under Article 22 of this Regulation as it then had effect.
Art. 22 substituted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/89), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)