Most of the changes were supposed to come into effect on July 1, 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying quarantine forced the postponement of the entry into force of some additional provisions of the law. The new dates are set by Article 22 of Federal Law No. 166-FZ "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation". This gave businesses additional time to prepare for the changes.
According to the new version of Federal Law No. 63 "On Electronic Signature", the rules for obtaining and using EP in companies and government agencies will change. Managers and employees will use different types of electronic signatures. And if general directors of companies and individual entrepreneurs, as before, will be able to sign documents with qualified EP (QEP) for legal entities, then the rest will have to obtain QEP for individuals.
A qualified EP certificate of an individual can only be australia mobile database together with a digital power of attorney. That is, the head of the company has the right to authorize one or another employee to sign a certain type of document. For example, to allow an accountant to send reports to the Federal Tax Service. At the same time, each signing of a qualified EP certificate of an individual must be accompanied by a digital power of attorney, which must specify the right to perform this operation.