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The long-awaited reform on electronic archiving has been filed with the Luxembourg Parliament on 13 February 2013 and will now start the adoption process. The reform will replace obsolete rules that date back a quarter of a century. The bill's authors took this opportunity to give the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg very ambitious new rules. Indeed, the major obstacle to the development of electronic archiving lies in the legal uncertainty inherent to the destruction of originals, in particular the fear that the copies' integrity could be subsequently challenged. The solution lies in the establishment of a legal presumption of the copies' conformity to the originals.
This presumption is groundbreaking as it breaks with a 2000-year old tradition of writing prevalence. This...
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