Poland applies the eIDAS Regulation directly. Because eIDAS is a Regulation rather than a Directive it needs no national transposition, so its three-tier structure — simple, advanced and qualified — holds in Poland exactly as it does elsewhere in the Union.
Poland · Enacted 2014 (eIDAS), 2016 (national act)
eIDAS applies directly in Poland — as a Regulation it requires no national transposition
Article 25(1): a signature is not denied legal effect or admissibility merely for being electronic
Article 25(2): a qualified electronic signature carries the legal effect of a handwritten signature
Polish civil law reserves certain acts to written form, and certain others to notarial form
Where written form is required, a qualified signature is the electronic route to satisfying it
Poland supervises its qualified trust service providers, and the list of them is public
Poland applies the eIDAS Regulation directly. Because eIDAS is a Regulation rather than a Directive it needs no national transposition, so its three-tier structure — simple, advanced and qualified — holds in Poland exactly as it does elsewhere in the Union. Article 25(1) provides that an electronic signature may not be denied legal effect or admissibility in proceedings merely because it is electronic or because it falls short of a qualified signature. Article 25(2) gives a qualified electronic signature the legal effect of a handwritten signature. That second provision carries most of the practical weight in Poland, because Polish civil law reserves some acts to written form and others to notarial form; where written form is required, a qualified signature is the electronic route to satisfying it. Nationally the Regulation is accompanied by the Act of 5 September 2016 on Trust Services and Electronic Identification (Dz.U. 2016 poz. 1579), which governs the supervision of trust services in Poland. The qualified providers supervised by Poland are published on the EU Trusted List, which anyone can inspect.
These are the facts we capture and store for every signature. eIDAS Regulation sets the requirements above — whether what we record satisfies them for a given transaction is a legal question that depends on the circumstances.
Explicit consent captured before signing, recording intent to sign electronically
Signer identified by email address, IP address and user-agent, with timestamps
SHA-256 hash of the document before and after signing, so any later change is detectable
ECDSA P-256 signature on every verification record
Complete audit trail of every action on the envelope
Portable proof embedded in the signed PDF, verifiable offline without SignForge
TLS 1.3 + SHA-256
Cryptographic proof
Append-only, immutable
Certified infrastructure
eIDAS applies directly in Poland, and Article 25(1) provides that a signature is not denied legal effect or admissibility in proceedings merely because it is electronic. SignForge records consent, signer email, IP and user-agent, SHA-256 hashes before and after signing, and a full audit trail. Whether a given signature is sufficient for a particular act is a legal question that depends on the form Polish law prescribes for it.
Polish civil law prescribes a form for certain acts. Where that form is written, Article 25(2) of eIDAS makes a qualified electronic signature the electronic equivalent of a handwritten one. SignForge does not issue qualified signatures and is not on Poland’s Trusted List, so for those acts it is not the right tool — a qualified provider is. For agreements where no particular form is prescribed, that constraint does not apply.
No. Polish law reserves those acts to notarial form, and a notarial deed cannot be produced by any e-signature platform. This is a limit of the form the law requires, not of SignForge specifically.
General information — not legal advice
This page summarizes electronic signature legislation drawn from primary legal sources and international bodies including UNCITRAL and UNCTAD. It is not legal advice and creates no solicitor–client or attorney–client relationship. Laws change, and how they apply depends on the transaction, the parties, and the document type. Before relying on electronic signatures for a regulated, high-value, or cross-border transaction — or for any document type listed as excluded — take advice from qualified counsel in the jurisdiction whose law governs that transaction. That is a separate question from the governing law of your agreement with SignForge, which is set out in our Terms of Service.
Last reviewed: 10 August 2026
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