The National Authority for Electronic Certification is the competent authority with the task of supervising the compliance with the Law number 9880 and statutory ordinances number 503, 525 and other provisions. Any subject operating as a certification service provider in the Republic of Albania must fulfill the conditions specified in this law. Other requirements, which are specified at the strategic documents issued by the Authority can be found in this page, and under Information. Also, the names of all registered Certification Service Providers and Testing and Confirmation Bodies as well as valid, revoked and suspended certificates can be found under Registry.

The criteria and requirements that CSP must fulfill are equivalent to other countries in the EU, and they all follow the same root, which is the European Council Directive 1999/93/CE. Some of the standards implemented are ISO/IEC 15408, ETSI 101 456 ISO IEC 27001, FIPS 140-1 and 140-2, etc and other equivalents.We must emphasize that the operations of the CSP and the secure signature-creation devices must fulfill the security evaluation level of EAL3+ or E2.

A CSP must only issue qualified certificates according to the format described in RFC 3280. Other information will be available at the page Standards or download the Directive no. 3 - "Directive for the electronic certification services" (albanian) that can be found under Information together with the other directives issued by the Authority and the legal and technical forms required to be filled out and submitted by a candidate CSP requesting to be registered.

• Law for Electronic Signature
• On an amendment to the Law no. 9880 dated 25.02.2008
• Statutory Ordinance on Electronic Signature
• Statutory Ordinance for Costs and Fees
• Structure of the National Authority for Electronic Certification
• On the placement of the NAEC under the dependency of the State Minister
• Directive 1999/93/CE

Also, here can be found other strategic documentes and you can dowload all this documents in PDF format.

• Directive no. 4: "For general terms"
• Directive no. 5: "The Certifications Service Provider's registration documents"
• Directive no. 6: "The Testing and Confirmation Body's registration documents"
• Directive no. 7: "Legal representative's declaration"
• Directive no. 8: "The natural person's declaration"