# Article 34 — Certificates **Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/389 · binding · OJ L 69, 13.3.2018 · dated 27 Nov 2017 [in force]** *In force · Consolidated version of 12 September 2023 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02018R0389-20230912)* 1. For the purpose of identification, as referred to in Article 30(1)(a), payment service providers shall rely on qualified certificates for electronic seals as referred to in Article 3(30) of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 or for website authentication as referred to in Article 3(39) of that Regulation. 2. For the purpose of this Regulation, the registration number as referred to in the official records in accordance with Annex III (c) or Annex IV (c) to Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 shall be the authorisation number of the payment service provider issuing card-based payment instruments, the account information service providers and payment initiation service providers, including account servicing payment service providers providing such services, available in the public register of the home Member State pursuant to Article 14 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 or resulting from the notifications of every authorisation granted under Article 8 of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council in accordance with Article 20 of that Directive. 3. For the purposes of this Regulation, qualified certificates for electronic seals or for website authentication referred to in paragraph 1 shall include, in a language customary in the sphere of international finance, additional specific attributes in relation to each of the following: **(a)** the role of the payment service provider, which maybe one or more of the following: **(i)** account servicing; **(ii)** payment initiation; **(iii)** account information; **(iv)** issuing of card-based payment instruments; **(b)** the name of the competent authorities where the payment service provider is registered. 4. The attributes referred to in paragraph 3 shall not affect the interoperability and recognition of qualified certificates for electronic seals or website authentication.