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Dear Members,<br>
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The EV Guidelines have strict rules in the organizationIdentifier
values and require the country code of all currently-allowed
Registration Schemes (NTR, VAT, PSD) to follow the ISO 3166-1 for
the 2-letter country prefix.<br>
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The organizationIdentifier language mainly came from ETSI ESI 319
412-1 and then the SCWG made several modifications. However, there
is an exception for Greece specifically for the VAT Registration
Scheme that is aligned with Article 215 of <a
href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/112/oj"
rel="nofollow">Council Directive 2006/112/EC</a> that allows
Greece to use the country prefix "EL". In practice, Greece uses the
prefix "EL" to identify itself next to the VAT number of all Legal
Entities registered/incorporated/established in Greece, and all
other European Countries use this prefix to identify Greek VAT
numbers. You can easily verify this in the <a
href="https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation">VIES
VAT number validation website</a> where Greece is listed as"EL".<br>
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Based on the above, I prepared
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/main...dzacharo:servercert:updateVAT">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/main...dzacharo:servercert:updateVAT</a>
and plan to prepare a ballot to update the EV Guidelines. Mozilla is
willing to endorse this ballot so I am actually looking for one more
endorser.<br>
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Please let me know if there are any issues or concerns with this
proposal.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Dimitris.<br>
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