10 Oct
2005
10 Oct
'05
3:57 p.m.
Judging from recent experience, providing a VAT number, and a reference to the historic founding documents of a pretty old university are not considered to be an "equivalent document".
This is strange because a VAT number shows that the local government has been able to determine that you are a real organization. This is better than any other documents whether they are translated or not. The RIPE employees can check the VAT number here: http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/vies/en/vieshome.htm That takes care of most RIPE countries. For the other ones, I think it is unreasonable to force them to provide a translation because companies in England do not have to provide translated documents. --Michael Dillon