The EU Regulation on cross-border production of electronic evidence presents IT service providers, cloud providers, hosters, and SaaS platforms with entirely new operational challenges. Incoming European Production Orders (EPOC) and European Preservation Orders (EPOC-PR) require extremely rapid, legally sound responses within as little as 8 hours in emergency cases.
Failing to meet statutory deadlines or improperly disclosing data risks heavy fines, severe GDPR conflicts, and irreversible reputational damage. We support your business in handling authority requests efficiently and with complete legal certainty.
To be prepared for the challenges of the EU E-Evidence package – namely Regulation (EU) 2023/1543, Directive (EU) 2023/1544, and respective national implementing legislation (in Germany: “Act on European Production and Preservation Orders for Electronic Evidence” – EBewMG) – you must ensure that the necessary expertise exists within your organization. Especially for emergency requests, you need to be capable 24/7 of pulling subscriber, traffic, and content data across potentially disparate subsystems and dispatching it using qualified electronic signatures and mandatory standard forms. This doesn’t just sound complex – it is complex!
Prior to providing information, you must assess whether clarification is required, whether formal notices regarding objections to disclosure must be communicated to the issuing authorities, or whether you must hold off sending a response while awaiting potential objections from local authorities. Ultimately, it is critical that you know what to do, who in your organization needs to be involved at what stage, and how round-the-clock processing can be executed from both a technical and legal standpoint.
To achieve this, you need to evaluate whether to handle everything in-house or outsource specific tasks. We co-developed the EviGate platform – a zero-implementation-overhead SaaS solution that streamlines request processing – and offer an optional, add-on 24/7 legal service delivered directly by our legal team.
Our E-Evidence Training & Service Packages at a Glance
Select the model that best fits your internal resources and IT infrastructure:
Service Modules Overview
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E-Evidence Core Training
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Legal, Compliance, IT Security & Support | Legal foundations, vetting frameworks & deadlines | In-house Workshop / Online |
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EviGate Platform Training
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Operational Handlers & IT Process Leads | User training for the EviGate workflow | Hands-on Software Training |
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Managed Legal Service
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Executive Board, SaaS & Infrastructure Providers | Complete outsourcing of legal validation | Legal Outsourcing / SLA |
1. E-Evidence Core Training: Legally Sound Review of Authority Requests
In this intensive seminar, we equip your team with the legal and organizational foundation to independently evaluate and flawlessly process authority requests from other EU member states.
Key Content of Core Training:
- Applicability & Scope: Which specific services, platforms, and server architectures fall under the Regulation.
- Deadline Management Under Pressure: Reliable workflows for the 10-day standard deadline and critical 8-hour emergency cases.
- Legal Review Framework for EPOC / EPOC-PR: Verifying formal jurisdiction and legally classifying subscriber, traffic, and content data.
- Data Protection & Trade Secrets: Avoiding conflicts with the GDPR and employee privacy while legally asserting grounds for refusal.
- Internal Process Setup: Organizationally establishing reliable 24/7 availability for law enforcement authorities.
2. EviGate Platform Training: Efficient Workflows in Practice
Legal certainty requires error-free operational execution. With the specialized EviGate software platform, you digitize and automate the entire processing workflow. In this training, we prepare your team for live deployment.
Platform Training Focus Areas:
- Centralized Case Management: Automated deadline tracking and structured assignment of incoming EPOCs.
- Guided Validation: Step-by-step verification using digital checklists directly within the user interface.
- Audit-Proof Documentation: Compliant logging of all decision steps for supervisory authorities and courts.
- Encrypted Data Transfer: Interface-driven, GDPR-compliant transfer of requested data.
3. Managed Legal Service: Fully Outsource Legal Vetting
Do you lack internal capacity for round-the-clock availability or a specialized legal team? We handle complete legal validation as a full service via the EviGate platform.
How Working with rickert.law Works:
- Incoming Request: Authority requests land directly in your EviGate instance and are instantly routed to us.
- Legal Validation: Our specialists immediately examine legality, formal requirements, and data privacy compliance.
- Drafting the Response: We draft legally sound approvals or formulate reasoned refusals.
- Timely Case Closure: The matter is finalized with complete, audit-proof, and GDPR-compliant documentation.
Additional Specialized E-Evidence Training Offers
Complementing our core training, we offer role-specific practical modules addressing high-risk areas:
- 24/7 Emergency Training (Simulation): A realistic stress test for your team. We simulate an incoming emergency order to uncover bottlenecks in your escalation chains.
- Management Briefing for C-Level & CISOs: Concise briefing on executive liability risks, guarantor duties (Garantenstellung), and required compliance frameworks.
In addition to our E-Evidence offerings, we provide a wide range of legal training programs tailored specifically to companies with digital business models.
Why Rickert.law Is Your Ideal E-Evidence Partner
Pioneers in Digital Law: We combine deep legal expertise in IT and data protection law with technical understanding of modern platform architectures.
Unique End-to-End Solution: The synergy between legal counsel and the EviGate platform gives you both software automation and specialized legal validation.
Maximum Flexibility: Whether empowering your team through in-house training or fully leveraging Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), you receive a solution tailored to your budget and capacity.
Make Your Company E-Evidence-Ready Now!
Don’t let tight EU deadlines catch you off guard. Mitigate liability risks and establish clear, reliable processes in your organization today.
GDPR steht für: General Data Protection Regulation und bezeichnet die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung, welche seit dem 25.05.2018 unmittelbare Geltung in allen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten entfaltet. Wir möchten für Sie kurz die wesentlichen Aspekte der neuen Regelungen hervorheben und Ihnen unseren Beratungsansatz vorstellen.