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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">SwissSign votes ‘Yes’ on ballot SC-68 ‘Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE"> Servercert-wg <servercert-wg-bounces@cabforum.org>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 16. Januar 2024 09:08<br>
<b>An:</b> CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Public Discussion List <servercert-wg@cabforum.org><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-68: Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Purpose of the Ballot</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p id="bkmrk-the-ev-guidelines-ha">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">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">VIES VAT number validation website</a> where Greece is listed
as"EL".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="bkmrk-there-is-also-counci">There is also <a href="https://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1756/oj">
Council Directive 2020/1756</a> amending Directive 2006/112/EC that requires the prefix "XI" for the identification of taxable persons in Northern Ireland.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="bkmrk-this-pull-request-pr">This <a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/473" target="_blank">
pull request</a> proposes updates to the EV Guidelines to allow those additional prefixes. It also fixes some formatting issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">MOTION BEGINS</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p id="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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="bkmrk-modify-the-baseline-">MODIFY the EV Guidelines as specified in the following Redline:
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<a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c</a>.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The procedure for this ballot is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2024-01-16<o:p></o:p></p>
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