The current pace of life great amount daily affairs contribute to the fact that the entire document flow goes into electronic form and an increasing number of services can be obtained via the Internet. And more and more people are learning about the existence of the public services portal, which presents the largest catalog of services that are provided online. This resource was originally conceived as a platform for the interaction of executive bodies with individuals. But in order to use any service on this site, you need to obtain an electronic signature, and in this article we will look at how this can be done.
What is an electronic signature
Let's first consider why this electronic signature is needed at all? Its presence implies the Law of April 6, 2011 No. 63 "On Electronic Signature", according to which, an electronic document can have legal force only if there is an electronic signature that identifies the person, and in our case, the recipient of the service.
So that you do not have questions about terms as you read the article, let's list the main abbreviations and their decoding:
- EDS or EP- electronic digital signature
- CA- verification Center
- NEP– unqualified electronic signature
- CEP– qualified electronic signature
Types of electronic signature
An electronic signature can be of three types:
- simple
- unskilled
- qualified
A simple electronic signature implies that individual login and password to access services. We often meet such signatures on the Internet and in some cases you still need to enter a one-time password, which is sent to your phone number.
An unqualified electronic signature allows not only to identify its owner, but also to fix changes in documents with it. You can get such an ES only in a certification center. It should be noted that the scope of such an EDS has limitations. For example, it cannot sign documents that contain a secret.
A qualified electronic signature is recognized by everyone without exception. social institutions and gives absolute legal force to an electronic document, which is similar to a paper document that contains the owner's signature and seal.
Electronic signature for individuals and legal entities
Both individuals and legal entities can create an electronic signature for working with the public services portal. The choice of the type of electronic signature depends on the tasks that you plan to solve using the site. But we want to immediately warn you that working with bodies such as the FSS, the Federal Tax Service, the Pension Fund or Rosstat is possible only with a qualified electronic signature. You can get an ES both before registration on the portal, and after it. We recommend that you first, and only then proceed to obtaining a signature.
Creation of a simple electronic signature for public services
Let's look at how you can get a simple electronic signature to work with the public services portal. To do this, open the site gosuslugi.ru and pay attention to the right column of the page that opens. This is where the links to enter the site and register are located. We are interested in the latter, so we click on it.
You will need to enter your last name, first name, patronymic, your phone number and address Email. A message with a confirmation code should be sent to the phone or email you specified. We recommend that you come up with a password that is more difficult, since it is you who will enter it every time you enter the site.
Next, you need to enter the maximum possible amount of information about yourself, so that it is then automatically substituted into the necessary forms at the stage of receiving a particular service. At a minimum, you need to enter your passport details, SNILS number and TIN. Verify your account it will be possible at the nearest branch of the Russian Post or MFC. Only after passing through all these stages, it will be possible to consider that you have successfully created a simple electronic signature for working with public services.
Creation of a qualified electronic signature for public services
As we mentioned above, a qualified electronic signature can only be created in a certification authority. A list of such centers in your region is available at https://e-trust.gosuslugi.ru/CA.
To display only the centers of your city in the list, select its name in the "city" field and click on the "apply" button. In the list that appears, click on each of the existing centers in turn and look at their addresses. It is advisable for you to choose the one closest to you (to view, click on the magnifying glass icon in front of the name of the center)
It is best to call the indicated contact phone number and ask all questions before visiting the center. There you can find out what documents you need to bring with you. A trip to the center is inevitable, since only there you can get your hands on a secret key with electronic signature on a USB flash drive.
The price of the service includes:
- issuance of a certificate
- issuing a license to use the software
- Signature USB stick
- disk to automatically configure your computer
- consultations on emerging issues by company specialists
To obtain a qualified electronic signature for a legal entity, the following will be required:
- issue a power of attorney for the employee who will receive the signature
- TIN of the organization
- extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities
Checking the performance of an electronic signature for public services
When you have received the entire set that comes with the signature, you will need to check the operability of the received EDS. To do this, open the site https://www.gosuslugi.ru/pgu/eds, upload the file and enter the code from the image.
If after that you see the inscription "The authenticity of the document is confirmed", then everything is in order and you can start working with the portal. We would like to immediately note the fact that this electronic signature will only work with the public services portal and will not be valid on other resources. For example, you will not be able to use it on the website of the Federal Tax Service.
We hope that this article has given you answers to most of your questions. If you have any difficulties, please let us know in the comments to this article. Also, we recommend that you watch a video about working with an electronic signature.
Electronic signature- an actual business tool. It will certify and protect information about an individual or legal entity on any digital documentation. The signature is used for commercial purposes and to obtain public services.
Electronic signature for public services - where to get?
EDS creation is free. Pay media required . The price of a USB drive is 1400 rubles.
Contact the Certification Authority (CA) to purchase a certificate and an electronic signature key.
A personal appeal of citizens to the customer service office of PJSC will help to make an EDS Rostelecom.
After receiving the USB drive, the owner enjoys various services on state portal that require special identification.
Those who are going to receive a digital document from an authorized center do not have to register on the State Services website or receive a cipher sequence from the center operator. You have the right to come to the company until the moment of registration personal account.
Confirmation of information about the owner takes place in the office. The signature is issued on the day of the client's request.
Ready USB key use only for the use of public services.
The procedure for obtaining an ES
Public services are available to all residents of the Russian Federation, as it belongs to the public system.
Ways obtaining an EDS:
- The online application process is based on three steps:
- Register yourself on the UC website;
- Enter the data in the questionnaire;
- Come to the MFC with a carrier of information;
- Take an electronic signature on paper;
- On the website of the CA, write down the EDS on a USB flash drive.
- Through the MFC
- Contact the MFC(Multifunctional Center);
- Submit original documents: passport, TIN, SNILS;
- pay money in the terminal - 1400 rubles;
- Next you get a USB stick and wait for SMS;
- Visit the site certification center;
- Write down the EDS to your storage medium.
Authorized centers for issuing qualified key certificates for checking ES are posted on the state portal, as well as on the website of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation.
Types of ES and conditions for recognition of electronic documents
According to Article 5 of the Law "On electronic signature", the client can receive enhanced or plain signature.
You will receive a free simple signature at the MFC in 1 business day.
- enhanced view is qualified and unqualified in nature, obtained through cryptographic transformation of data.
A qualified signature is accepted by absolutely all functioning social institutions.
With the help of it, the holder works with documents in electronic format, while having absolute legal force.
In other words, it acquires the qualities of a paper document with the signature of the sponsoring representative.
The owner can use EDS in the corporate sphere only in accordance with the conditions and rules established by the system operator.
Electronic signature for individuals and legal entities
Absolutely all citizens of our country have the opportunity to obtain an EDS.
It is only worth considering the fact for what tasks and purposes it will be used on the state portal " e-government».
All types of signatures work on equal terms. This does not apply financial institutions. Rosstat, FSS, PFN and FSS work only with those clients who received electronic analogues only in a qualified status.
As soon as the EDS holder concludes a service agreement and becomes a member of the system of one of the operators, an individual or legal entity automatically becomes one of the members of the electronic interaction of the participants.
In other words, the presence of an EDS is the main condition for gaining access to the system.
Scope of the electronic signature on the portal "Electronic government"
After registering a personal account on the public services portal with the help of an ES, the user will familiarize himself with all the information in more detail.
Frequent services which most individuals prefer to use are:
Portal features for legal entities provide many useful business tools. Registration is possible only on the basis of the right to use without a power of attorney from a legal entity.
For these purposes, create a personal administrator account.
A qualified certificate contains the following information:
- personal information about the owner;
- Name of company;
- Location;
- OGRN legal entity.
The top priority services include:
- Making an extract from EGERP and EGRUL;
- Getting accurate and complete information on the existence of debts regarding tax payments;
- Registration of a new transport, deregistration of the old and so on.
Especially for individual entrepreneurs — contract monitoring to reduce the risk of acquiring excess revenue and transferring income to another taxation system on time.
Organization system accounting IP will allow entrepreneurs to avoid many negative situations.
The signature is used to endorse applications to authorized executive bodies. In order to protect the transmitted information, the service uses a cryptographic system.
Prospect and relevance of automation of electronic document management
Electronic signature- this is a significant leap in the procedure for automating the electronic version of the workflow.
Using EDS on the portal "Electronic government" bears responsibility.
That is why the user must carefully monitor the order and ensure that these keys are securely protected from unauthorized persons.
If you suspect unauthorized access and invalid signature as soon as possible, contact the Certification Authority, where he received the certificate, to confirm the authenticity and verify the EDS.
This approach will save labor, time and material costs to redistribute the flow of information from paper forms to an electronic version. As a result, organizations have a competitive ability, legal security of document flow.
A USB key is outwardly indistinguishable from a regular USB flash drive. But inside there are not vacation photos or favorite music, but an electronic digital signature protected by a special program. To prevent scammers from using the signature, you need to enter a PIN code, which in the test version consists of 10 characters. Using a USB key, the registration procedure on the public services portal is reduced tenfold. Until now, in order to get a login and password, one had to wait for weeks until valuable information reached the channels of the Russian Post. With a USB key, this will take several hours. A flash drive with an EDS costs 600 rubles, but as they promise in Rostelecom, this is only at first. When more companies join the production, the price will be brought down to 300 rubles.
The electronic digital signature that will be stored on this flash drive will be of three types and, accordingly, of different degrees of protection. For various kinds public services will require different types of EDS. According to experts, the introduction of EDS will expand opportunities for business and government document flow: after all, the time for processing requests will be reduced, while the information will be under reliable protection. However, adherents of traditional autographs should not worry. By law, the use of EDS is voluntary.
In a number of countries, EDS has long been introduced. There is both European and American experience, but, according to experts, it is optimal for Russian realities to use what has been developed in terms of using EDS in Germany. According to the Director of the Department of Legal Support of the Ministry information technologies and communications of Mikhail Yakushev, the German law provides a detailed classification of electronic digital signatures. At the level of the law, it is prescribed what requirements are imposed on certification centers. The German law is based on the European directive on the use of electronic signatures. On the basis of German experience, it has already been clarified which provisions of this directive are viable and which have not been justified in practice. In particular, the Germans paid great attention to the problem of transferring a signature certificate in the event of termination of the certification center. The German experience shows that this is a very complex issue, and if the state regulates the activities of certification centers, then it must constantly monitor the fulfillment by these centers of the relevant requirements.
Electronic document management has become widespread in Germany. This system is an integral part of the interaction between residents of settlements and local administrations, between companies that serve local administrations. This system makes it possible to promptly resolve issues that now take several days or even weeks to resolve in Russia.
The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia is systematically working to improve the quality and convenience of obtaining state and municipal services in in electronic format. One such measure is an electronic signature.
Currently, relations in the field of the use of electronic signatures are regulated by the Federal Law of April 6, 2011 No. 63-FZ "On Electronic Signature" (hereinafter - Federal Law No. 63-FZ), other federal laws adopted in accordance with them regulatory legal acts, as well as agreements between participants of electronic interaction. Federal Law No. 63-FZ defines the concept of an electronic signature, establishes its types and requirements for electronic signature tools, with the help of which an electronic signature, an electronic signature key and an electronic signature verification key are created and verified.
In accordance with Federal Law No. 63-FZ, an electronic signature is information in electronic form, which is attached to or otherwise associated with other information in electronic form (signed information) and which is used to identify the person signing the information.
Exist the following types electronic signature: simple electronic signature and enhanced electronic signature. There is a difference between an enhanced unqualified electronic signature and an enhanced qualified electronic signature.
Participants in electronic interaction have the right to use an electronic signature of any kind at their discretion, if the requirement to use a particular type of electronic signature in accordance with the purposes of its use is not provided for by federal laws or regulatory legal acts adopted in accordance with them, or by an agreement between participants in electronic interaction in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 4 federal law No. 63-FZ.
Information in electronic form, signed with a simple electronic signature or an enhanced unqualified electronic signature, is recognized as an electronic document equivalent to a paper document signed with a handwritten signature, in cases established by federal laws, regulatory legal acts adopted in accordance with them, or an agreement between participants in electronic interaction in accordance with Part 2 of Article 6 of Federal Law No. 63-FZ.
Information in electronic form, signed with an enhanced qualified electronic signature, is recognized as an electronic document, equivalent to a paper document signed with a handwritten signature, and can be used in any legal relationship in accordance with the law Russian Federation, except for the case when federal laws or regulatory legal acts adopted in accordance with them establish a requirement that the document be drawn up exclusively on paper in accordance with Part 1 of Article 6 of Federal Law No. 63-FZ.
Types of electronic signature, the use of which is allowed when applying for state and municipal services, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of June 25, 2012 No. 634.
To obtain a simple electronic signature key in accordance with paragraph 7 of the Rules for the use of a simple electronic signature in the provision of state and municipal services, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 33 of January 25, 2013, you must contact the authorities and organizations providing state and municipal services in electronic form.
To obtain a key certificate for verification of an enhanced unqualified electronic signature, you must contact a certification center.
To obtain a qualified certificate of the electronic signature verification key, you must contact an accredited certification center.
The list of accredited certification centers is published on site Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (https://digital.gov.ru/ru/activity/govservices/2/) in the information and telecommunications network "Internet".
Rostelecom provides all users of the Gosuslugi portal with the opportunity to obtain an EDS and go through the identity verification procedure, find out where the nearest offices are located and see the full list of addresses on the official website of the operator or by calling the help desk. The procedure does not take much time, especially if you are already registered on the service.
What is an EDS from Rostelecom and how can it be used?
In order to fully apply all the functions, options, open access to the sections of the portal "Gosuslugi", the user needs to obtain an EDS, which is issued in special data processing centers, as well as in the branches of Rostelecom. An electronic digital signature can simplify the process of providing and ordering various kinds of applications, certificates, notifications, and permits. All this can be done without leaving your home, avoiding live queues and paperwork.
Rostelecom issues digital signatures to citizens in its territorial subdivisions. To do this, you just need to visit the nearest office of the company and take with you Required documents. If you have not registered on the Gosuslugi portal, then specialists will be able to independently enter data into the database for you. The service is provided free of charge, as it is funded by the state. You only need to pay for the carrier provided by the operator (USB drive).
Having received an EDS for the Gosuslugi portal from Rostelecom, you can remotely send your applications and other documents for consideration. Thanks to the service, you can open an individual entrepreneur or obtain a patent without visiting regulatory authorities.
How to get an EDS in Rostelecom
Let us consider in detail how the process of obtaining an EDS in Rostelecom takes place.
Attention! Before going for an electronic signature, you should find out by calling the help desk where the nearest branch of the company is located, where you can get the coveted key. There is a chance that in the branch, which is located near your home, this service do not provide.
When contacting a specialist, you must have the following documents:
- passport;
- SNILS;
- certificate of TIN (If you have already completed the registration procedure, then TIN is not required).
After that, the operator enters the data into the "Gosuslug" database, or checks the information specified in your documents (for registered users).
Before you receive an EDS used to log in and work on the Gosuslug portal in Rostelecom, you will need to sign several documents:
- consent to the processing and use of your personal data, within the framework of electronic service(for the Ministry of Communications);
- an application for agreement with the terms of the contract for the provision of services by Rostelecom (Certifying Authority);
- application for the production of an individual electronic key.
Through the signing process accompanying documents and applications, you will have to pay for the production of the key, namely the USB-drive, on which the EDS will be recorded. Its cost will be approximately 660 rubles.
A Rostelecom specialist must print and provide you with an act of acceptance and delivery of services, a signature certificate form, and also issue the EDS itself.
You will only have to use the key to enter the system. For this:
- we enter the section "Gosuslug", where the personal account is located;
- choose the appropriate authorization method, in our case it is “by EDS”;
- install the “User Plugin”, after which you will notice a change in the interface of your personal account and its design.
That's all. You can proceed to familiarize yourself with the new features and services available to users who have an EDS.
Contact Rostelecom, to obtain an electronic digital signature, both users registered on the Gosuslugi portal and those who need to go through the procedure for entering data into the database can. The whole process will take no more than 30 minutes, and the result will be expanded access to the system and the possibility of remote interaction with various departments and organizations.
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