Global relevance of the European Electronic Signatures co-regulation process

There is a clear conflict between IT self-regulating ability and state regulation, which is easily perceivable through the apprehension one can feel in front of an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) when it comes the moment when cash should be dispensed, or through the concerns raised by last innovations in the area of operating systems (e.g. Windows XP, where the software for the needs of its functioning -and maybe also for the protection of copyrights of its producerbrakes into the undisputable individual freedom to change configuration of a PC’s hardware).