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<b>Subject:</b> [Servercert-wg] Voting Begins for Ballot SC-68: Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier</font>
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This email initiates the voting period for ballot SC-68. Please vote.<br>
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<p id="x_bkmrk-the-ev-guidelines-ha" dir="ltr" role="presentation">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 EN 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" originalsrc="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/112/oj" shash="UnXN1kfHqKXBmVuO+yY86mBn4u0uSuSu4Vs2qV5n2wZVp9rFPu88QalYrXVaGSQjoAMwG721sA7YojqFqyAE8XIglKeWah7Z782466g/cGzkKz0uIm+H5yzozS1zyE8CzZ0aq11r0LgrW+HWlcXdSx9+FXz8UdDxe0eHxibG/zY=" 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. This can easily be verified in the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation" originalsrc="https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation" shash="C2tKEZHz1tt1IJ/w/RCTFayOlMCO8OQTwle5BouyAE5qdr+1AAGehqFeDQ2+Bjs8AIavGKSWMGDZ9k4twwKrOkRSeQ7MD6XQJ3Ag1visPv3a0yxetUsOKsPH8mGEt1PYVE3dZNsTjrMNcuA3Dur/EcFrtiTSjrOEpeounMPuwl0=">VIES
VAT number validation website</a> where Greece is listed as"EL".</p>
<p id="x_bkmrk-there-is-also-counci" dir="ltr" role="presentation">There is also <a href="https://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1756/oj" originalsrc="https://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1756/oj" shash="D9QKaUWPaeVgwy09hWDxPCu4833O/FsJXWaZVxYObrF2y2wt8V4DqK866aSShQwX/b1AmL6VidDK79BtEHroOQrPb0wodKZa58HMY4pQcjHZmzaDf12IIK0IJktHdqJisMl6uK4zK3hS6RQxJAtCz5vXZJQ0Iywha9iDap0m7L0=">
Council Directive 2020/1756</a> amending Directive 2006/112/EC that requires the prefix "XI" for the identification of taxable persons in Northern Ireland.</p>
<p id="x_bkmrk-this-pull-request-pr" dir="ltr" role="presentation">This <a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/473" originalsrc="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/473" shash="y1enziC2xjA10PT1BgEiWYIYbCNU/Tskp1L7xahElMWzNhIjE59vZSxTsWkBQigLrWUccagCuvOuQHk3gPPmKSeNHtYPfs4JAdRJ4ojNmMGDSBw9X08YUwYFL75oTXYVsCNvrxJ/GoT2Of1TxEgJLtLnDrqX5mcZz9IWmNRKxME=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
pull request</a> proposes updates to the EV Guidelines to allow those additional prefixes. It also fixes some formatting issues.<br>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation" id="x_bkmrk-the-following-motion">The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Corey Bonnell of Digicert.</p>
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<p id="x_bkmrk-this-ballot-modifies">This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”), based on Version 1.8.0.</p>
<p id="x_bkmrk-modify-the-baseline-">MODIFY the EV Guidelines as specified in the following Redline:
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<li><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c" originalsrc="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c" shash="X1tY8oMem8AKj/2aFh4tYQXlQtWC8oVpRji6vlwwkhTu2Ztr4RkM4ylnp2u9098JnXOuRbBQowtXK3L6zNbSrjqCamuW9r/0JWpCBsxSj7U4202GhaLF+nEXumb8OTl3JQJaB9MvDbqKd9cMb5HVs5et/J0v9O6GGNTEPoI8bDE=" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c</a>.</li></ul>
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<td>2024-01-16</td>
<td>2024-01-23</td>
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<td>2024-01-23<br>
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