PEC Preservation
Manage, archive and digitally preserve PEC
The PEC is equivalent to a registered letter with return receipt thanks to the “Delivery Receipt” that gives the sender certainty that a message has been sent and delivered to a recipient.
The delivery receipt is an e-mail message issued by the PEC Manager as a confirmation that the communication has been sent. It contains the original message, the delivery data and is digitally signed by the PEC Manager, which thus guarantees the exact time of sending, the authenticity of the content and consequently the immodifiability of the same.
However, the digital signature applied has an expiration date as it is tied to a signature certificate that usually has a limited life span.
In order to give lasting evidentiary legal value to PEC, it is not sufficient to print it and the message delivery and acceptance receipts in paper format or to save it in one’s archives, but rather it must be stored digitally in a regulation-compliant preservation system so that the characteristics of authenticity, integrity, reliability, readability and unchangeability can be guaranteed.
Preserving the PEC is not only useful for evidentiary purposes but is also a regulatory requirement, in fact:
PEC is a form of business correspondence with legal relevance and must be kept for 10 years, and because it may also have relevant content for business purposes.
PECs are considered to be computerized documents, so Article 43 of the CAD (Digital Administration Code) stipulates that they must be preserved digitally following the technical rules provided for preservation systems.
Compliant Preservation Integrated
into the PEC Service
The Intesi Group PEC service now natively includes compliant preservation: the platform preserves messages and receipts, without the need for complex integrations or additional configurations.
Once activated, users can set their own preservation rules in just a few moments, with the guarantee of:
Ten-year preservation of selected PEC correspondence (messages, receipts, and attachments)
Long-term readability and legal validity
Full regulatory compliance of the process, entirely managed by Intesi Group
Learn more about Intesi Group’s PEC offering.