UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act)

UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, 1999) is the US model law that recognises the evidentiary value of electronic signatures in 47 of the 50 States. Complemented by the ESIGN Act (2000) at the federal level, it establishes that contracts and signatures 'cannot be declared invalid solely because they are in electronic form'. It is the US functional equivalent of the European eIDAS regulation, with a more liberal approach: UETA does not define levels (SES/AES/QES) and provides no qualified equivalent. For transatlantic contracts, an eIDAS advanced signature (AES) is generally recognised as UETA/ESIGN compliant, whereas the reverse is not automatic.