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On 25 June 2026, Docbyte hosted a webinar on Qualified Electronic Archiving (QeA) and why digital evidence is rapidly becoming unavoidable for regulated organisations across Europe. The recording is now available below.
What We Covered
The session walked through the regulatory and operational forces making trusted digital evidence a business-critical requirement — not a niche compliance topic. Key themes included:
- Why storage is not evidence — the critical difference between keeping a file and being able to prove its authenticity, integrity, and legal validity years later.
- Qualified Electronic Archiving under eIDAS 2 — what the EU trust-service framework means in practice, how QeA fits alongside qualified signatures and seals, and what the Belgian certification landscape looks like.
- Archiving by Design — how to build evidence preservation into processes from the start, rather than retrofitting compliance after the fact.
- Regulatory convergence — how NIS2, DORA, AI Act, data-sharing frameworks and sector-specific legislation are converging on the same requirement: long-term, auditable, legally defensible digital evidence.
- Practical implications for IT and compliance teams — what questions to ask your current archiving provider, and what a QeA-grade service looks like compared to standard document storage or backup.
Watch the Recording
The full webinar recording is available via Zoom. Use the passcode below to access it.
Watch the webinar recording →
Passcode: nh4j$p8+
About Qualified Electronic Archiving
Qualified Electronic Archiving is a trust service introduced under eIDAS 2 that provides legally recognised, long-term preservation of electronic documents and their associated evidential properties — including the validity of electronic signatures and seals at the time of signing, and the long-term integrity and authenticity of the archived record.
Docbyte is a Qualified Trust Service Provider for Preservation and Qualified Electronic Archiving, listed on the Belgian and EU Trust Lists. Our platform is certified against EN 319 401 and ETSI TS 119 511/512, and aligned with the Belgian certification scheme based on ISO 14641.
If you have questions about QeA or want to discuss your archiving requirements, get in touch with our team.
