LIFE WITHOUT PAPER: LEGAL REGULATION OF ELECTRONIC-DIGITAL REALITY
The article analyzes the concept of an electronic document and the legal regulation of electronic document management in the Russian Federation, which are of great practical importance in the context of digitalization of everyday life. The development of science, technology and technology has led not only to the very possibility of creating, storing and distributing electronic documents, but also to a significant reduction in the cost of electronic document management in comparison with paper. The legal use of electronic documents in entrepreneurial activity, as well as in the performance of legally significant actions by individuals, has become possible due to the legal regulation of electronic signatures as an analogue of the handwritten signature of documents made on paper. However, a number of issues are regulated in the legislation not unambiguously and logically, which may negatively affect the formation of judicial practice in the application of the relevant legislation.