E-signature becomes legal on Friday, TPSA mobilizes

TP Internet (TPI), a company owned by TPSA, believes that it can make a prof it of up to zl. 400 million in the first two to three years that electronic signature become legally valid. CC Signet, a company owned by TPI, will make money from issuing certificates necessary to use e-signatures. The new law g overning e-signatures will come into force on Friday. However, it will be a few more months before they can be used in practice. In three years there co uld be about three million users of this system. Banks and financial institu tions will probably be the first to employ them, followed by the e-commerce sector and finally public authorities. CC Signet is not wasting its time and is already distributing its products among the TPSA group. The system will b e offered to TPSA clients together with the company's other services. A cert ificate to authenticate an e-signature presently costs several hundred zloty . (Parkiet, p. 7) A.D.