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From: Teus Hagen
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:05:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Coverted EU to Europe. Pushed tables into appendices.
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+CACert Organisation Assurance Program sub-policy for countries in Europe.
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+ CAcert Organisation Assurance Program sub-policy for countriers in Europe with a national Trade Office Register.
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+ Author: Teus Hagen
+ Creation date: 2008-05-01
+ Status: WiP 2008-05-02
+ Next status: DRAFT 2008
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+ 0. Preliminaries
+
+
+This CAcert sub-policy extends the Organisation Assurance Policy
+("OAP") by specifying how Organisation Assurance is to be conducted by
+the assigned Organisation Assurer ("OA") under the supervision of the
+Organisation Assurance Officer ("OAO") for entities within the defined
+scope.
+
+ 1. Scope
+
+ This sub-policy is applicable
+to organisations registered with the Trade Office Registry as tabled in
+paragraph 3.1 of this sub-policy:
+
+
+ - Legal entities in the European Union and other European countries:
+
+ - Government Bodies & Instrumentalities;
+
+ - Private Owned Companies;
+
+ - Limited Companies;
+
+ - Clubs, Societies & Associations;
+
+ - Cooperations and mutual safeguarding Societies;
+
+ - Foundations;
+
+ - Sole Trader or Professional;
+
+ - Partnerships: Trade, Commanditair, Free Profession;
+
+ - Churches/Religious Groups.
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+
+
+ - European legal entities:
+European Economic Collaboration (EESV), European Limited Company (SE), European Cooperation (SCE).
+
+ - Foreign
+legal entities subjected to foreign jurisdiction but active in mainly
+in the EU country.The entity has registration duties in the EU (fin.
+year report, extract foreign TRO, accountant report. E.g. Private
+Limited Company (Ltd) in UK foreign jusrisdiction but mainly active in
+an EU country.
+
+
+ 2. Requirements
+
+
+ This section describes any scope specific requirements that are not otherwise defined in the OAP.
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+ 2.1 Organisation
+
+
+ - For
+Applicants with individual liability operating under their own name
+business name registration is optional. These Applicants can be assured
+as company (Trade Office Registration is required) and/or as
+individual: CAcert Assurance Programme.
+ - Applicants must be a valid legal entity but may have an arbitrary number of registered trading names.
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+
+ 2.2 Records
+
+ Historic
+supplemental documents may be accepted where it can be proven that
+material changes have not been made (eg via absence of subsequent
+submissions in official document listings).
+
+
+ 2.3 Application Form
+
+
+ - The licensing authority must be specified where applicable.
+
+This is optional for sole traders, sole professionals and partnerships
+operating under their own name(s): CAcert Assurance Programme.
+ - The registry Identifier must be specified where applicable.
+
+This is optional for sole traders and partnerships operating under their own name(s): CAcert Assurance Programme.
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+ 3. Registration
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+ 3.1 Trade Office Registries
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+
+Organisation accepted for Assurance under this policy is an
+organisation or entity registered with a national operating formal
+Trade Office Registrar in the country, as tabled in Appendix I (Trade
+Office Registrars in EU countries and other European countries).
+The criteria for adding a country and the national Trade Office Registrar:
+
+- The Trade Office Registrar follows the trade office model, in which
+the trade office is a formal authority for registering legal entities
+(not individuals).
+- The Trade Office Registrar is a formal entity under national (European) law.
+- The Trade Office Registrar is defined in the table of Appendix I.
+- The Trade Office Registrar has a reliable search facility service.
+The service may carry costs which are reimbursed from the organisation
+applicant.
+- The Trade Office Registrar provides an Extract of the registration,
+providing location, type of organisation, full name of the
+organisation, direcvtors with signature power and their signature
+structure, organistration registration "Identification" number.
+- Any entity registerable at the trade office is accepted.
+
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+ 3.2 Domain Registries
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+
+Every European country has a Domain Registry for the ccTLD country code
+under which a company domain can be registrated with. Domain
+registration of a organisation domain is checked with national Domain
+Registry via whois.
+A table with an overview of different countries and their country top domain registrars is defined in Appendix III.
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+
+ 3.2 Registry Identifiers
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+
+ - Trade Office Registration Identifier, a unique registration number obtained from the Trade Office Registrar.
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+ 3.3 Documents
+
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+ - The Extract from the Trade Office Registry.
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+ 4. Processes
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+ 4.1 Assurance
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+ - Each person listed in an application must be individually assured and referenced by a confirmed email.
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+ - All entities must be verified by a office trade registrar search.
+
+ - Partnership
+applicants must additionally be verified via an Extract as a current
+individual member and should be a managing partner.
+ - Company applications must be made by an individual who is duly authorised to sign on behalf of the company:
+
+ - Officeholder
+Applicants (directors or preferably secretary) must be verified in an
+"Extract" (obtained from the Trade Office Registrar by the OA where
+fees are reclaimable from the applicant).
+ - Any other Applicant must prove that they are duly
+authorised to sign on behalf of the entity (for example via delegation
+and/or under company rules) to the satisfaction of the OA, for approval
+by the OA Officer.
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+
Appendix I
+Table of accepted Trade Office Registrars for EU countries
+
+The green dot • denotes an accepted registrar. The orange dot• denotes a registrar being accepted. The red dot • denotes a registrar awaiting feedback from that country to be accepted for company registration extracts.
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+
+Table of accepted Trade Office Registrars for other European countries
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+The green dot • denotes an accepted registrar. The orange • denotes a registrar being accepted. The red dot • denotes a registrar awaiting feedback from that country to be accepted for company registration extracts.
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+
+Appendix II
+National acts on digital signatures
+
+Comment:
+
+The legal requirement is that there is sufficient evidense and trust.
+This is the case for a digital certificate that can be checked.
+
+
+Digital Signatures may be accepted under implementation of EU European Directive 99/93/EG and EU national act:
+
+Austria: | Signature Law 2000 |
+Belgium: | Signature Law 9-7-2001 F.2001-2699 |
+ Bulgaria: | |
+ Cyprus: | |
+Czech Republic: | Act on Electronic Signatures, 227/2000 |
+Denmark: | Lov om elektroniske signaturer |
+Estonia: | Digital Signature Law, 2000 (in Estonian). |
+ | Digital Signatures Act (consolidated text Dec 2003) |
+Finland: | Laki sähköisistä allekirjoituksista, 2003 (in Finnish) |
+ France: | |
+Germany: | German Signature Law of 2001, changed in 2005 |
+Greece: | Presidential Decree 150/2001 (in Greek) |
+ Hungary: | |
+Ireland: | Irish Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 |
+Italy: | Decreto legislativo 7/3/2005, n. 82 (Codice dell'Amministrazione Digitale) |
+Latvia: | |
+Lithuania: | Law on electronic signature, 2002 |
+Luxembourg: | Loi du 14 août 2000 relative au commerce électronique, 2000 (in French) |
+Malta: | Maltese Electronic Commerce Act 2001, last amended 2005 |
+Netherlands: | Wet Elektronische Handtekeningen (WET) of 21st of May 2003 (in Dutch) |
+Norway: | Electronic Signature Act, 2001 (in Norwegian). |
+ Poland: | |
+ Portugal: | |
+Romania: | Legea semnăturii electronice, 455/2001 |
+ | Law on the Electronic Signature, 455/2001 (unofficial translation) |
+ Slovakia: | |
+Slovenia: | Electronic Business and Electronic Signature Act (in Slovene) |
+Spain: | Ley 59/2003 , de 19 de diciembre, de firma electrónica (in Spanish) |
+Sweden: | Qualified Electronic Signatures Act (SFS 2000:832)) (in Swedish) |
+ | SFS 2000:832 in English translation |
+Switzerland: | Federal Law on Certification Services Concerning the Electronic Signature, 2003 |
+United Kingdom: | Electronic Communications Act, 2000 |
+ | The Electronic Signatures Regulations 2002 (SI 2002 No. 2013) |
+
+
+Appendix III
+Table with country top level domain registrars
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CACert Organisation Assurance Program sub-policy for EU countries and Norway
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Creation date: 2008-05-01
Status: WiP 2008-05-02
Next status: DRAFT 2008
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0. Preliminaries