CHAPTER 3Components, networks and contact points
SECTION 4TRACES
Article 41Use of an electronic CHED
F11.
An operator or a competent authority may use a CHED in an electronic format, provided that this is by means of a national system, and that the CHED meets all of the following requirements:
(a)
it is signed by the operator responsible for the consignment with the operator's electronic signature;
(b)
it is signed by the certifying officer at border control posts or control points with the certifying officer's advanced or qualified electronic signature;
(c)
it bears the advanced or qualified electronic seal of the issuing competent authority;
F22.
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3.
The required steps referred to in F3paragraph 1 shall each be timestamped with a qualified electronic time stamp.