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PCC ANNOUNCES EXCEPTIONS FROM ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE LAW
On 27 March 2002 the Public Construction Commission announced the following in accordance with the provisions of the Electronic Signature Law: (1) no matters are excluded from the law's application within the PCC jurisdiction; and (2) there are certain technical and application requirements for actions to which the law applies as follows (the date of entry into force of these requirements will be separately announced on the PCC website):
| Legislation | Provision | Text | Application and proce-dural requirement |
| Enforcement Rules of Pro-fessional En-gineers Law | Art. 2 Para. 1, main text | Certificate fee | May be paid electroni-cally |
| Art. 2 Para. 1 Item 3 | Copy of household registration record | Population administration electronic gateway | |
| Art. 6 Para. 1, main text | Practice license fee | May be paid electroni-cally | |
| Art. 6 Para. 1 Item 4 | Copy of household registration record | Population administration electronic gateway | |
| Regulations Governing Technical Consultancy Organizations | Art. 7 Para. 1 Item 1 | Copy of household registration record | Population administration electronic gateway |
| Art. 7 Para. 1 Item 2 | List of directors or executive sharehold-ers | May be submitted by filling out website form | |
| Art. 7 Para. 1 Item 3 | Intended scope of business | May be submitted by filling out website form | |
| Art. 8 Para. 1 Item 1 | Evidencing docu-ments of company registration | Company registration authorities' electronic gateway | |
| Art. 8 Para. 1 Item 2 | List of directors or executive sharehold-ers and supervisors | May be submitted by filling out website form | |
| Art. 8 Para. 1 Item 3 | List of practicing en-gineers | May be submitted by filling out website form | |
| Regulations Governing the Reissuance of Engineers' Practice Li-censes | Art. 3 Para. 1, main text | License fee | May be paid electroni-cally |
| Art. 3 Para. 1 Item 1 | Application document | May be submitted by filling out website form | |
| Art. 3 Para. 1 Item 4 | Original documents evidencing training | May be transmitted to PCC digitally as verified by professional associa-tion | |
| Art. 3 Para. 1 Item 6 | Copy of household registration record | Population administration electronic gateway | |
| Art. 3 Para. 1 Item 7 | Photocopies of documents evidencing use of offices | Applicant may transmit image files | |
| Government Procurement Law (GPL) | Art. 33 Para. 2 | Bid documents may be submitted as elec-tronic data | Separate regulations will be made under Art. 93-1 GPL |
| Art. 93-1 | An entity may make procurements by elec-tronic methods; the electronic data so used should be deemed equivalent to formal documents, and the entity need not pre-pare separate written documents. | Separate regulations will be made under Art. 93-1 GPL | |
| Tendering Procedures for Central Gov-ernment Pro-curements Below the Threshold for Publication | Art. 4 Para. 2 | When inviting sup-pliers to submit writ-ten price quotations or proposes, the entity may permit their submission by the transmission of elec-tronic data | Separate regulations will be made under Art. 93-1 GPL |
| Criteria for Qualification of Tenderers and Special or Large Pro-curements | Art. 10 Para. 3 | Evidentiary docu-ments may be sub-mitted by electronic data approved by the competent authority for the relevant in-dustry | Separate regulations will be made under Art. 93-1 GPL |