Electronic court mailbox
Electronic court mailbox (other designation: virtual court mailbox) refers to a virtual entrance facility through which citizens, lawyers , authorities , companies , etc. can send electronic documents (e.g. complaint , pleadings ) to the court .
The establishment of the electronic court mailbox is a legal requirement so that procedural declarations can be effectively submitted to the court in electronic form. In the meantime, a number of federal courts and courts of the federal states can be reached via electronic court mailboxes. These include the five supreme federal courts .
People who want to communicate in this way with a court that has an electronic court mailbox must have a signature card ( smart card ) from a company licensed for this purpose ( TrustCenter ) and a card reader , which can be used to transfer the electronic documents to be submitted with a qualified electronic Can provide a signature .
Incoming electronic documents are managed via a computer (incoming server) with the help of specific software that checks, among other things, whether the document has the necessary electronic signature and whether the document contains the data required for further processing (so-called metadata , see also XJustiz ). Possibly. the input can be taken over via a central server for several dishes or entire court units.
See also
literature
- Kunstein, Florian: The electronic signature as a component of electronic administration - Analysis of the legal framework for electronic communication with special consideration of local government - Tenea-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86504-123-X , PDF download
