Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Profiles for Trust Service Providers issuing certificates; Part 5: Extension for Qualified Certificate profile (V1.0.0)
The present document defines a profile for Qualified Certificates@ based on the technical definitions in RFC 3739 [4]@ that may be used by issuers of Qualified Certificates complying with Annex I and II of the European Electronic Signature Directive 1999/93/EC [1]. This Qualified Certificate profile and the IETF Qualified Certificate profile RFC 3739 [4] address Qualified Certificates within different contexts and therefore also use the term Qualified Certificate with slightly different meanings. While the IETF profile uses the term Qualified Certificates within a universal context independent of local legal requirements@ this profile uses the term to explicitly describe a Qualified Certificate as defined in the European Electronic Signature Directive 1999/93/EC [1].