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The promulgation of Law No. 15-04 of 11 Rabi’al-Thani 1436 corresponding to 1st February 2015 laying down the general rules on electronic signature and certification led to the implementation of a national electronic certification scheme comprising a national root authority and two subordinate authorities, one dedicated to the government sector and the other to the economic sector.

The Regulatory Authority of Post and Electronic Communications has been designated the Economic Electronic Certification Authority. It is responsible for monitoring and supervising electronic certification service providers who provide electronic signature and certification services for the benefit of the public.

The Economic Electronic Certification Authority also carries out the following tasks for electronic certification service providers:

1. developing and submitting for approval, to the Authority, its electronic certification policy and ensuring that it is applied;
2. issuing authorisations to electronic certification service providers, following a favourable opinion from the Authority;
3. approving certification policies issued by electronic certification service providers and ensuring that they are applied;
4. keeping expired electronic certificates and the data related to their issuance by electronic certification service providers in order to hand them over to the competent judicial authorities, where appropriate, in accordance with the legislative and regulatory provisions in force;
5. publishing the Authority’s electronic public key certificate;
6. taking the necessary measures to ensure continuity of services in the event of the electronic certification service provider being unable to provide its services;
7. sending to the Authority, periodically or at its request, all information relating to electronic certification activity;
8. auditing applicants for authorisation itself or through accredited audit firms, in accordance with the certification policy;
9. ensuring the existence of effective and fair competition by taking all necessary measures to promote or re-establish competition between providers of electronic certification services;
10. arbitrating disputes between electronic certification service providers and each other or users in accordance with the legislation in force;
11. requesting from providers of electronic certification services and from any person concerned, any document or information useful for the performance of the tasks assigned to it by this law;
12. drawing up the terms of reference laying down out the terms and conditions for the provision of electronic certification services and submitting them to the Authority for approval;
13. carrying out any checks in accordance with the electronic certification policy and the terms of reference laying down the terms and conditions for producing public reports and statistics, as well as an annual report including a description of its activities, subject to the protection of confidentiality.

The Economic Electronic Certification Authority will report any fact of a criminal nature to the Public Prosecutor’s Office that comes to light during the performance of its duties.

• The website of the Economic Electronic Certification Authority: www.aece.dz
• The Government Electronic Certification Authority website: https://agce.dz/