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Nicaraguan Parliament Passes Digital Signature

The legislative passed an Electronic Signature bill, which will ease international transactions.

Friday, July 2, 2010

©image: Adam Baker

This bill explains that technically, electronic signatures are “electronically integrated data, which form a message or are associated with other data”.

José Pallais, President of the Justice Committee, explained that “it will ease electronic commerce; there won’t be a need for physical invoices, just electronic ones. This means a faster, easier and more accessible way of conducting business, something that has been used for years in more developed countries.”

Source: elsalvador.com

Key entities

Ministry of Tourism and Salvadoran Corporation of Tourism Banco Multisectorial de Inversiones Salvadoran Coffee Council

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