35Accordingly, that provision does not prohibit national courts from declaring electronic signatures invalid, but establishes a general principle prohibiting those courts from denying electronic signatures legal effect and evidential value in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that those signatures are in electronic form or that they do not meet the requirements laid down by Regulation No 910/2014 for an electronic signature to be considered a ‘qualified electronic signature’.
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