To enable wider access to the current thinking and recommendations for future studies and projects concerning electronic records of the International Council on Archives (ICA), it has been decided to make this report available as an ICA Study. The report is the work of the ICA Committee on Archival Legal Matters. It identifies the issues that archivists and records keepers must keep in mind to ensure the authenticity of electronic records, and formulate recommendations for further studies and concrete projects in this matter with a view to establishing legal and technical procedures for ensuring the legal evidence of electronic documents in the case of migration of these materials---and in the case of transfer to archival institutions.