The Chamber of Imathia begins the free provision of digital signature to its members, our “digital fingerprint” which in the modern world ensures the authenticity of the sender and ensures the validity of an electronic document. This service constitutes an extremely important effort to upgrade and modernize the electronic services provided by the Chamber of Imathia to its members, to promote electronic transactions of businesses and the electronic issuance and circulation of documents through the application and use of PS, aiming to become an example of best practice at the European level.
Necessary conditions for a member company of the Chamber to be entitled to create an application for the issuance of an advanced digital signature are the following:
- Be registered in the General Commercial Register of the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce.
- Be a capital company, i.e. its legal form must be a Société Anonyme (S.A.), a Limited Liability Company (LLC) and a Private Capital Company (P.C.).
The digital signature provided by the Chamber is Remote Signing (remote management – intangible) and its acquisition is very easy by applying through the central website of the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce.
After the user has been identified (digitally or remotely), the completion of the issuance is immediate.
Provision of a Digital Signature for a Document
In detail, the application creation process consists of the following steps:
- Entering the company into the services.businessportal.gr system with the G.E.M.H. codes. that has.
- Select from the menu for “Provision of digital signature”.
- Submit Application
- User Identification (remotely or by on-site visit to the Chamber after confirmation of the digital appointment from the platform)
- Complete application – Issuance of Digital Signature
Connection to GEMI and basic actions
- The company can proceed with the following actions:
- Select Natural Persons for Provision of Digital Signature
- Request to Add a Legal Representative
- History of Selection of Natural Persons
- History of Requests to Add Representatives
- View the Instructions for Use
The Benefits of Digital Signature
- It saves significant costs by avoiding shipping costs (postage / courier) and certification procedures (document validations), reducing printing costs, reducing the environmental footprint and eliminating the need for physical archiving.
- It saves time compared to the “hard copy” exchange of documents, which also leads to a better use of employees’ working hours and greatly reduces bureaucracy.
- It can be created using mobile devices (tablet, smartphone, ipad, iphone, laptop)
- It is easy to use and provides great flexibility in terms of document management, as it can be done anywhere and anytime without requiring a physical presence.
- It has the same legal force (P.D. 150/2001) with the handwritten signature, but with greater security because it is impossible to forge.
- It protects the authenticity and integrity of the data, as in combination with the timestamp, it ensures that the signer does not disclaim responsibility and allows the recipient of a document to verify the identity of the signer and ensure that its content has not been falsified.