Verification of legal persons
Article 4
1. Suppliers that are legal persons shall submit evidence of their identity and of their establishment within the Union by means of a qualified electronic seal supported by a qualified certificate for electronic seal, issued by a qualified trust service provider pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 910/2014. An electronic signature of the authorised representative of a supplier which is a legal person shall not be accepted because it does not provide evidence of the establishment in the Union of that legal person. 2. The qualified certificate for electronic seal, supporting the qualified electronic seal shall contain the legal person’s name precisely as registered in a Member State’s business register, including any space, punctuation or other special character(s). The certificate shall be compliant with EN 319 412-1 and with EN 319 412-3. 3. The ‘Subject’ field present in the qualified certificate for electronic seal shall have an ‘organizationIdentifier’ attribute that shall contain information using the following structure and order: (a) three-character legal person identity type reference set to the value ‘NTR’; (b) two-character ISO 3166 ( 12 ) country code, indicating the country of establishment; (c) hyphen-minus sign ‘-’ (U+002D); (d) the identifier according to the identity type reference for ‘NTR’ using the following structure and order, specified in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1042 as the European Unique Identifier (EUID): (i) the Business Register Identifier, for the particular section or office of the public register having attributed the business registration number to the legal person in question; (ii) dot-sign ‘.’ (U+002E); (iii) the Business Registration Number, as attributed to the legal person by the national business register in point (i) above. The Country code, part of the EUID and preceding the abovementioned three fields, as well the verification digit, are optional. 4. Natural persons, who register models of suppliers that are legal persons, shall not undertake the electronic verification process in place of those legal persons.