Digital signature

The ROeID mobile application allows you to digitally sign documents using the new chip-enabled identity card issued by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI).

With the ROeID app and an NFC-enabled phone, you can digitally sign using the electronic Romanian ID card. You simply tap the card on the phone, enter the CAN code and then the 6-digit PIN, and the signature is generated directly using the certificate stored on the chip.

Law No. 214/2024 sets out the conditions under which the advanced electronic signature may be used.

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Article 4

Legal effects depending on the type of electronic signature

(1) An electronic document signed with a qualified electronic signature is equivalent, in terms of its conditions and effects, to a document under private signature, under the conditions of Article 25(2) of Regulation (EU) No. 910/2014. A qualified electronic signature has the same legal effects as a handwritten signature.

(2) An electronic document issued by a public authority or institution, or by a person acting in the exercise and within the limits of public authority powers, signed with a qualified electronic signature or bearing a qualified electronic seal, is equivalent to an authentic instrument.

(3) Where the law requires written form as a condition for the validity of a legal act, an electronic document satisfies this requirement if it has been signed with a qualified electronic signature or with an advanced electronic signature which, under the conditions of this law, has the same effects as a handwritten signature.

(4) Where the law requires written form as a condition for proving a legal act, an electronic document satisfies this requirement if it has been signed with a qualified electronic signature, an advanced electronic signature, or a simple electronic signature under the conditions of paragraph (9).

(5) An electronic document signed with an advanced electronic signature has the same legal effects as a document signed with a handwritten signature in any of the following cases:
a) the legal act was signed with an advanced electronic signature created using a certificate for electronic signature issued by a public authority or institution in Romania or by a qualified trust service provider;
b) the electronic document is acknowledged by the person against whom it is invoked, and such acknowledgment may also result from the unequivocal fact that the person contesting the advanced electronic signature has performed, in whole or in part, the obligations arising from the electronic document;
c) the parties have expressly agreed, through a separate instrument signed with a handwritten signature or a qualified electronic signature, that they will grant the advanced electronic signature the legal effects of a handwritten signature. By the same instrument, the parties also confirm that they understand the risks and the burden of proof relating to the advanced electronic signature.

In legal relationships where both parties are professionals within the meaning of Article 3(2) of Law No. 287/2009 on the Civil Code, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented, the separate instrument may also be signed with an advanced electronic signature.