Regulation on the Procedures and Principles Regarding the Electronic Seal (Regulation) entered into force by its publication in the Official Gazette on 14 September 2022. Regulation, that is prepared by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) based on the Electronic Signature Law (Law), covers the legal and technical aspects of the electronic seal and the procedures and principles regarding its application. We compiled some significant aspects below.
Difference from Electronic Signature: As known, with the additional clause (numbered 1) brought into the Law, electronic seal is defined as “electronic data added to another electronic data or logically linked to electronic data and used for the purpose of verifying the information of the owner of the seal”.
In the Law, it was already regulated that the provisions regarding the electronic signature would also apply to the electronic seal, by analogy. However, an electronic seal can only be given to legal entities and determines whether the seal represents the legal entity. For this reason, it differs from an electronic signature, which represents the signature of a real person and whose owner can only be natural persons.