Dear Michal,

The Executive Board resolution may indeed affect cases where after changes between two RIPE NCC members’ business structures (e.g., merger or acquisition), the acquired entity is dissolved. In such cases, the LIR Account Agreement of the dissolved entity will indeed be terminated, based on the resolution. Please allow us to clarify the legal basis for the termination of the RIPE NCC LIR Account Agreement.

According to the RIPE NCC LIR Account Agreement, article 6.3, the RIPE NCC is entitled to terminate this agreement with immediate effect, if the Member’s RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement is terminated for any reason. The Executive Board with this resolution is exercising this right.

Looking at the termination clause of the RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement, article 9.4.g states that the RIPE NCC is entitled to terminate the RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement with immediate effect on the day on which the Member's membership of the association terminates according to Article 6 of the Articles of Association. And this Article 6 stipulates that the membership ends on the dissolution of the Member, if this Member is a legal entity.

Additionally, the RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement is the agreement that establishes the membership of the entity that signs it with the RIPE NCC (see article 4). If a RIPE NCC Member acquires another RIPE NCC Member in a way that the two entities become one, it is forbidden by Dutch law for one legal entity to maintain two memberships with an association. The same entity cannot have two Standard Service Agreements with the RIPE NCC. Article 9.4.j of the Standard Service Agreement allows the RIPE NCC to terminate a Standard Service Agreements with immediate effect, in case the RIPE NCC cannot reasonably be required to continue the RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement for reasons that cannot be attributed to the RIPE NCC and for which the RIPE NCC cannot be held accountable by virtue of law, a juridical act or generally accepted principles.

Accordingly, in case of an acquisition of two RIPE NCC members, where the acquired Member is dissolved, the RIPE NCC has the right to immediately terminate the Standard Service Agreement of the dissolved Member and subsequently their LIR Account Agreement.

Please note that the Executive Board resolution does not affect cases where after changes between two RIPE NCC members’ business structures (e.g., merger or acquisition) both entities still exist.

Kind regards,
Athina Fragkouli
Chief Legal Officer
RIPE NCC


On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM Michal Krajčírovič via members-discuss <members-discuss@ripe.net> wrote:
Dear Gabor,
On what specific legal basis does the RIPE NCC Executive Board consider itself entitled, by unilateral resolution, to deny effect to statutory universal succession in respect of an existing LIR agreement?

In KA Finanz, C‑483/14, judgment of 7 April 2016, paragraph 58, the Court of Justice expressly confirmed, in the context of a cross-border merger, that the acquiring company replaces the acquired company as a party to its contracts without novation (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A62014CJ0483)

Please identify the precise, legally effective provision of applicable law, the Articles of Association or the relevant agreement on which you rely either to exclude that succession or to require the termination or consolidation of the contractual relationship passing to the acquiring company, and explain how the conditions for its application are satisfied. 

Administrative inconvenience is not a substitute for legal authority, and citing the Boards own resolution does not establish its power to override existing contractual rights - really. 

br, 

-mk


------ Původní zpráva ------
Od "Gabor de Wit" <gdewit@ripe.net>
Komu "Clement Cavadore" <ccavadore@vedege.net>
Datum 02.10.2026 14:10:35
Předmět [members-discuss] Re: Board Resolution to Suspend the Acquisition of Multiple LIR Accounts

Dear Clément,


The issue is not so much with the cost of adding or maintaining individual LIR accounts. My colleague Marco recently published a RIPE Labs article that dives into this in more detail. In that article, he explains that “Most RIPE NCC systems were originally designed around the assumption that a registry account represents one member organisation. Allowing several registry accounts for the same member introduces complexity at almost every layer of the organisation.” There are costs to the organisation (and membership) to this complexity.


Marco provides a comprehensive list of the areas in which we experience this. Please see his article at:

https://labs.ripe.net/author/marco_schmidt/multiple-lir-accounts-looking-back-and-thinking-ahead/


Kind regards,


Gabor de Wit

RIPE NCC Chief Registry Officer




On Wed, 30 Sept 2026 at 14:14, Clement Cavadore via members-discuss <members-discuss@ripe.net> wrote:
Hello,

I hardly understand where is the overhead for NCC for those 2% of
members: If they already know the organisation with their first
membership, why should it be such an overhead to add another one with
the same administrative informations? Please, explain !

Kind regards,
--
Clément Cavadore

On Wed, 2026-09-30 at 10:38 +0000, NOC (CSN-Solutions) via members-
discuss wrote:
>
> We had exactly the same issue when we moved to a GmbH… RIPE took
> weeks to comprehend and we now have the sole trader followed by a
> workaround name with the GmbH. Communication was a mess….
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