Article 5 Human and technical resources
United Kingdom
The Commission shall evaluate the applicant’s human and technical resources. This criterion shall be weighted as 30 % of the total evaluation score.
Applicants shall provide information about their human and technical resources and describe how these resources are sufficient to perform the following functions:
to organise, administer and manage the.eu top-level domain, including the maintenance of the corresponding databases and the associated public query services, registering domain names, running the registry of domain names, running the Registry top-level domain name servers and creating and managing the top-level domain zone files;
to ensure high quality, transparency, security, stability, predictability, reliability, accessibility, efficiency, non-discrimination, fair conditions of competition and consumer protection in the provision of their services.
The applicants shall describe in their application the type of organisation, administration and management that they intend to put in place to fulfil the functions referred to in paragraph 2, including the following:
human resources and the necessary systems;
software and hardware;
facilities necessary for the operation and management of the.eu top-level domain.
The applicants shall describe how their resources, including human and technical capacity, are sufficient to perform the registrar function, should the Commission request to activate such a function to fulfil specific policy objectives. The applicant shall also provide information about how the allocation of such resources to perform the registrar function complies with the requirements set in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/517.
Applicants shall provide information about how they plan to have in place the complete organisational and operational structure so that they are able to start functioning as Registry from 13 October 2022.