The majority of legislation generally recognizes the validity and probative value of documents that are natively electronic (i.e., created as electronic originals), subject to compliance requirements.
In France, Law No. 2000-230 of March 13, 2000 gave electronic documents the same legal value as paper documents and Law No. 2012-1510 of December 29, 2012 established equal treatment between electronic invoices and paper invoices. This has the consequence of giving probative value to electronic archiving, and also imposing electronic documents with the same legal archiving obligations as paper documents.
HR Best Practices: Natively-electronic documents are considered originals provided that the following cryptographic techniques are used:
