Change from the previous nomenclature based on year and month (YY.MM) to official semantic versioning with major.minor.patch (e.g. 1.0.0). The latest version is therefore 2.5.0, as versions 2.0.x - 2.4.x have already been assigned with the LOIRE releases of 24.04., 24.06, 24.11, 25.03, 25.10;
Chapter 4.1: Amendments to the overarching conformity assessment rules regarding the mechanism when a third-party attestation against an accredited PS is no longer obtainable;
Chapter 6.1: Deletion of SWIPO as Permissible Standard;
Chapter 6.3:
o Improvements to the Declaration Process description for P1.1.1, P1.1.3
o Improvements to the Certification Process description P1.1.1
o Deletion of SWIPO as a Permissible Standard for P1.2.2, P1.2.4, P3.1.11, P4.1.1, P4.1.2
Chapters 6.5 to 6.8: Deletion of no longer needed notes regarding the declaration and/or certification process for P3.1.18, P3.1.19, P4.1.1, P4.1.2, P5.1.1, 5.1.2, P5.1.4 - 5.1.7, P5.2.1, P6.1.2 - P6.1.4;
Chapter 9: Deletion of SWIPO form the list of Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs);
Chapter 12: Deletion of the ‘Process description for how to become a Gaia-X compliant user’ (TAGUS); and Insertion of the ‘Process Description on How to Become a Gaia-X Compliant Participant’ (LOIRE);
Overall: Editorial and linguistic improvements and corrections.
Implementation of the new chapter of ‘Overarching Conformity Assessment Rules’ to support operationalization of the CD and obtaining Gaia-X Compliance in practice (no changes to the criteria themselves);
Deletion of SWIPO as Example Standard for all Gaia-X Compliance Criteria as the SWIPO Secretariat does not exist anymore;
Deletion of the empty and ‘not in use’ Gaia-X Compliance Criteria (P1.3.3., P1.3.4 and P1.3.5);
Extended Description of the ‘Declaration’ and ‘Certification’ process for the Sustainability Criteria P6.1.1, P6.1.2, P6.1.3 – P6.1.4)
Implementation of the extended and harmonized descriptions for ‘Declaration’ procedures per Gaia-X Compliance Criterion;
Editorial and linguistic improvements and corrections.
Restored the specification for criterion P1.1.2, which requires a declaration at the Standard Compliance level, following an editorial error in the previous release.
The Compliance Document is the new name of the PRC specifications document, which in the previous version was named as Policy Rules Conformity Document (PRCD).
Consistent use of “Compliance scheme” instead of conformity, labels, and other variations.
Replace “Conformity”/”Basic Conformity” by “Gaia-X Standard Compliance”.
Update of the Gaia-X Trust Anchors chapter with the inclusion of the decision flowchart to determine which type of Trust Anchor must be defined for a given criteria and with the requirements for TSPs (Trust Service Providers) and the selection process for CABs.
Introduction of the new chapter “List of Gaia-X Conformity Assessment Bodies” where all CABs, which are accredited to attest conformity against a permissible standard by the respective organizations body are listed.
Update of the chapter Gaia-X Compliance Criteria for Cloud Services, with the detail of the required evidence for the first two compliance levels (Declaration evidence).
Update of the chapter “Proposed Compliance for Data Exchange Services” with the specification of the conformity assessment required for the different schemes.