Електронски потпис у праву Републике Српске
The Electronic Signature in the Republic of Srpska Law

Summary/Abstract: With regard to information society growth and development dynamics, which is of obvious importance to the development of society in general, in The Republic of Srpska there is a visible effort made to create a corresponding legal background for the realization of such a development. One of the legal institutions inherent in this legal framework, which has been introduced to The Republic of Srpska legal system relatively recently, during the previous decade, is the electronic signature. In this paper, author analyses the very electronic signature in the legal system of Republic of Srpska, the way the applied law defines it in the first place, relation with complememtary legal institution, as well as the practical aspects of electronic signature use. Prior to that, a brief review is given of traditional, handwritten, signature, and the European Union historical background concerning electronic signatures. The Author recognizes the endeavor of The Republic of Srpska legal institutions to harmonize the legal aspects and the needs of the information society, but fails to ignore the gaping differences among the reality, the projected and the applied law. The research was carried out primarily by the means of applied law analysis. However, the need to take a holistic insight into the subject made a comparative approach inevitable. The relatively recent development of the electronic signature was the reason why the legal theory had also been consulted. The technical particularities of the electronic signature application are only to be understood by the means of, even minimal, information technology science expertise. In that aspect, interdisciplinary approach was applied.

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