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.