# Identifying vendor organizations

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|Version|2025-07-04|
|Status|draft|

## Introduction
This techincal agreements descibes how vendor organizations should be identified in the context of data exchanges.

## Agreements

### Decision
Vendor organizations are identfied using KvK-number (Kamer van Koophandel nummer, in English: Chamber of Commerce number)

### Rationale
1. The KvK-number is issued by a public organization (KvK
3. The KvK-number is cryptographically verifiable because it is contained in a PKI-certificate (PKIoverheid-certificate, CPS: https://cps.pkioverheid.nl)