5. Gaia-X Compliance Criteria for Participants¶
A Gaia-X Participant is a legal or natural person, that has a Gaia-X Participant Credential. A Gaia-X Participant can take several roles such as, and not limited to, consumer, producer, federator, operator, intermediary.
5.1 Criteria¶
Criterion PA1.1: The participant issuing its own Gaia-X Participant Credential shall provide the information according to the Gaia-X Participant ontology and shall agree and sign the Gaia-X Terms & Conditions as described in the Gaia-X Ontology for Issuers. In case the participant is a legal person, the participant, or its power of attorney, shall provide the information according to the Gaia-X Legal Person ontology.
| Standard Compliance | Label Level 1 | Label Level 2 | Label Level 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| declaration | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Proof of compliance: N/A
Permissible Standards:N/A
Example Standards:N/A
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The Terms & Conditions are the following ones:
The Gaia-X credentials issuer agrees to update its Gaia-X credentials about any changes, be it technical, organisational, or legal - especially but not limited to contractual in regards to the indicated attributes present in the Gaia-X credentials.
The certificate or public key of the keypair used to sign Gaia-X Credentials will be marked as untrusted where the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud becomes aware of any inaccurate statements regarding the claims which results in non-compliance with the Compliance Document.