A seal belongs to a legal person: it proves the company. A qualified electronic signature belongs to a natural person. A company registers with a seal; a sole trader signs with a qualified signature.
The certificate is issued by a qualified trust service provider (QTSP) on the EU trusted list, after verifying your company’s identity. You can get it through us — dpp.gs is an authorised reseller, so the seal and the signing of the Registry declaration happen in one place instead of three. We are not a QTSP ourselves; the certificate and the legal trust behind it come from the issuer.
We validate it before it can cost you a rejection. Our verification layer checks the seal against the EU trusted lists with the Commission's own reference implementation, confirms it is qualified and current, and matches the organisation identifier in the certificate to your account.
Your verified status in the Registry runs until the certificate expires, capped at three years. Plan the renewal before it lapses — an expired seal means no new passports and no changes to existing ones.
EU qualified seals are issued to EU legal entities. A manufacturer outside the EU will not obtain one, which is why the EU importer or authorised representative is the party that gets verified.
Step 1.iii on the producer route: the Registry generates a declaration, your legal representative seals it outside the Registry, and you upload it back.
We supply the seal as an authorised reseller, prepare the declaration, run the signing with your legal representative and validate the result before it is submitted.