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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The EV Working Group has another proposal that is ready for general discussion and a ballot. This proposal clarifies the definition of Business Entities, Private Organizations, and Incorporating Agencies. The change to Business Entity fixes the omission of non-commercial entities and clarifies that the examples are not all-encompassing. The Private Organization change helps promote EV in countries where they don’t generally use the term “Incorporating Agency”. The change in Incorporating Agency gives the guidelines a more international focus by using the term formation over incorporation and by acknowledging that businesses are generally registered, not established, with a filing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are the proposed definition changes:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Business Entity: Any entity that is <u>not </u><s>neither</s> a Private Organization<u>, </u><s> nor a </s>Government Entity<u>, or Non-Commercial Entity</u> as defined herein. Examples include<u>, but are not limited to,</u> general partnerships, unincorporated associations, <s>and</s> sole proprietorships<u>, etc</u>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Private Organization: A non-governmental legal entity (whether ownership interests are privately held or publicly traded) whose existence was created by a filing with (or an act of) the Incorporating Agency <u>or equivalent </u>in its Jurisdiction of Incorporation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Incorporating Agency: In the context of a Private Organization, the government agency in the Jurisdiction of Incorporation under whose authority the legal existence of <u>the entity is registered </u><s>Private Organizations is established</s> (e.g., the government agency that issues <s>Certificates of Incorporation </s><u>certificates of formation or incorporation</u>). In the context of a Government Entity, the entity that enacts law, regulations, or decrees establishing the legal existence of Government Entities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We welcome your feedback. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeremy<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>