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DATA RETENTION WAIVER (Belgium)<br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">
Register NV dba Register.eu</h3>
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Register NV dba Register.eu ("Registrar") submitted to <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> a
Registrar Data Retention Waiver Request ("Waiver Request") pursuant to Section 3 of the Data Retention Specification of the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>,
which provides that if a registrar is subject to the same applicable law that gave rise to <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>'s
request to grant a previous data retention waiver under the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>,
a registrar may request that <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> grant
a similar waiver, which request shall be approved by <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>,
unless <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> provides
Registrar with a reasonable justification for not approving such request.</p>
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Registrar's Waiver Request cites the previous data retention waiver granted by <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> to
NAMEWEB BVBA, on the basis of its contention that compliance with the data collection and/or retention requirements of the Data Retention Specification in the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr> violates
applicable law in Belgium.</p>
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See <<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-06-16-en" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-06-16-en</a>></p>
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Registrar and NAMEWEB BVBA are both domiciled in Belgium and subject to Belgium law, and <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>has
determined that it is appropriate to grant Registrar a data retention waiver similar to the waiver previously granted to NAMEWEB BVBA.</p>
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<abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> hereby
grants Registrar a limited waiver from compliance with certain provisions of the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>on
the following terms:</p>
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<abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> agrees
that, following Registrar's execution of the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>,
for purposes of assessing Registrar's compliance with the data retention requirement of Paragraph 1.1 of the Data Retention Specification in the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>,
the period of "two additional years" in Paragraph 1.1 of the Data Retention Specification will be deemed modified to "one additional year."</p>
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In all other respects the terms of the Data Retention Specification will remain <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">AS</abbr>-IS.
The waiver granted to Registrar applies only to the post-sponsorship period of retention of the data listed in the Paragraphs 1.1.1 through 1.1.8 inclusive of the Data Retention Specification, and it does not constitute a waiver of any other provisions of
the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr> or
other <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> policies
applicable to registrars. Without limiting the foregoing, nothing in this waiver limits Registrar's obligation to comply with <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">Consensus</abbr> Policies
or Temporary Policies developed and adopted in accordance with<abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>'s
Bylaws ("<abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> Policies")
or limits Registrar's obligation to comply with any amendment, supplement or modification of the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr> approved
and adopted in accordance with the terms of the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr> ("<abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr> Amendments").
In the event of any inconsistency between this waiver and the terms of any <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> Policy
or <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr> Amendment,
the terms of the <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> Policy
or <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>Amendment
will control.</p>
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The waiver granted to Registrar shall remain in effect for the duration of the term of the 2013 <abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">RAA</abbr>signed
by Registrar.</p>
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<abbr style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: inherit; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> notes
that the provisions of Section 3 of the Specification will apply to similar waivers requested by other registrars that are located in Belgium and subject to Belgium law.</p>
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