Tiered like eIDAS, but under national law.
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no statutory tiers
Several civil-law jurisdictions outside the EU operate their own tiered frameworks, structurally similar to eIDAS but established nationally and not mutually recognised with it. Brazil is the clearest example: Provisional Measure 2.200-2/2001 created the ICP-Brasil public key infrastructure, and Law 14.063/2020 subsequently defined three classes of electronic signature — simple, advanced and qualified — and set which class is required for which category of interaction, particularly with public bodies. The practical consequence in this family is that the top tier is tied to a national infrastructure, so a signature produced outside that infrastructure sits in a lower class regardless of its cryptographic strength.
Tiers exist but are defined nationally and are not mutually recognised across this family, so they are recorded per country. ⚠️ Japan and South Korea belong here; their instruments are added in T2 once an accessible primary source is confirmed — the standard Japanese translation host refused automated retrieval on 2026-08-10 and no unverified URL is recorded.
Every statement above traces to one of these. Open any of them.
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Last reviewed: 10 August 2026