Since 2009, the Russian National Certification Authority (NCA) has been actively dealing with issues in the sphere of cross border electronic trade. NCA Russia specialists in cooperation with the authorities of the Russian Federation develop conceptual approaches and solutions to ensure legal value of electronic commerce in different fields such as healthcare, education, public services, etc.

For eighteen months NCA Russia in cooperation with OpenPEPPOL and IBM Denmark representatives elaborated opportunities to connect Russian and European infrastructures for electronic commerce leveraging on the PEPPOL network. In autumn 2013, the first steps to achieve this objective were taken. The first agreement was concluded between NCA Russia and OpenPEPPOL to connect the NCA Russia to the PEPPOL network infrastructure as a compliant PEPPOL Access Point provider; the second agreement was concluded between NCA Russia and IBM Denmark providing technical connection of NCA Russia to the PEPPOL network infrastructure.

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