Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Policy and security requirements for Registered Electronic Mail Service Providers

Verified on 2026-10-29

(title available in French only)

Official Binding

Reference
ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1
Type
ETSI standard
Folder
ETSI standards
Version
V1.1.1
Date
2019-01
Status
Final
Languages
English
Official source
https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/319500_319599/319531/01.01.01_60/en_319531v010101p.pdf

Note

ETSI standard setting the policy and security requirements applicable to providers of registered electronic mail (REM) services, version 1.1.1.

The full text is not reproduced here (copyright): see the official source.

Summary

Purpose

European standard ETSI EN 319 531 (version 1.1.1, January 2019) sets the policy and security requirements applicable to providers of Registered Electronic Mail (REM) services

ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1, § 1 Scope

ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1, History. Registered electronic mail is a form of electronic registered delivery service that builds on ordinary e-mail ETSI EN 319 532-1 V1.1.1, § 4.1 Introduction. Its scope begins as follows:

Official text · ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1, § 1 Scope

The present document specifies generally applicable policy and security requirements for Registered Electronic Mail Service Provider (REMSP), including the services they provide.

It covers ordinary services and EU qualified services, but not interconnection requirements; the legal effects of the services remain outside its scope ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1, § 1 Scope.

Who it applies to

To providers of registered electronic mail services, qualified or not ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1, § 1 Scope. Implementing Regulation 2025/2162 also cites it for owners of conformity assessment schemes (see below) Art. 6(3).

Key points

What the acts apply, and how

  • Implementing Regulation 2025/2162: Annex II cites ETSI EN 319 531, without a version, in the row for electronic registered delivery services Annex II. The owners of conformity assessment schemes ensure that their schemes include at least the standards of that annex, as applicable, stating their year and version number Art. 6(3).
  • No other act in the corpus, consulted on 31 October 2026, names this standard. Implementing Regulation 2025/1944, which sets the reference standards for the sending and receiving processes of qualified electronic registered delivery services and for their interoperability, makes ETSI EN 319 521 and the EN 319 522 series applicable, not EN 319 531 List of reference standards and specifications referred to in Article 1 List of reference standards and specifications referred to in Article 2.

Error in the act

In the French version of Implementing Regulation 2025/2162, the row of Annex II and the list in Article 3, paragraph 1, point (e), refer to the provision of electronic registered delivery services, without the word “qualifiés” (qualified) Art. 3(1)(e); the corrigendum published in the Official Journal does not correct this point Corrigendum R(01) — Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2162; the English version refers to qualified services (qualified electronic registered delivery services), and the table concerns qualified trust services Annex II. Probable reading: qualified electronic registered delivery services.

Important clauses

ETSI standard: the site reproduces only short extracts; the full text is available from ETSI ETSI EN 319 531 V1.1.1. Written by Asphalia.