Level 1: Registered
Is the class definition written down, versioned, dated and approved by the board?
Core 3, 9
Do we state the size of the class with its source, its method and its date, as a range where it is uncertain?
Core 6.1
Does every version of the sign-up flow state the representative, the defendant, the claim and the period before anyone joins?
Core 5.1
Is every version of the sign-up flow captured in full, in every language, with the dates it was live?
Core 5.1
Does every record name the flow version it joined through and the terms version the person accepted?
Core 5.1, 5.2
Does every record we count hold a name, a date of birth (or a registration number for a legal person), and a contact channel the person confirmed?
Core 4.2
Do we keep a deduplication key per record, and mark the later of two records for one person as the duplicate?
Core 4.5
Are withdrawals, opt-outs and exclusions recorded with their date, and left out of the count?
Core 4.1
Where the annex binds people abroad, residents or both only on an opt-in: does every record hold the person's residence and its source, where the opt-in turns on it, and, once the opt-in is due, does the record of everyone who has to opt in hold their opt-in and, where the annex asks, their declaration on parallel actions?
Core 4.6
Is every change to a record logged: what, when, by whom, why?
Core 5.3
At each reference date, do we fix the snapshot root and anchor it in time?
Core 5.4
Does the board commission an auditor, independent of the operator and the funder, who traces a sample from the register to the source records and back?
Core 8
Do we own the register, can we export it complete at any time at no extra cost, and can we replace the operator?
Core 9
Does the operator's fee depend neither on the outcome nor on the number of records?
Core 9
Level 2: Identified
All of Level 1, and:
Does every flow capture and every terms version carry a digest?
Core 5.1, 5.2
Does every record carry a digest of its canonical form?
Core 5.3, 11.3
Do we report how the records spread over the class's own facets, beside the class's spread where the source gives it?
Core 6.3
Do we report how many records are grade B or better?
Core 10
Do we regenerate the register at a reference date shortly before each hearing?
Core 7
Does the auditor recompute every grade and the coverage at each grade from the source records?
Core 8
Level 3: Verified
All of Level 2, and:
Did a bailiff or a notary witness every version of the sign-up flow?
Core 5.1
Does every evidence document carry a digest the record names?
Core 5.3
Do we report coverage per subgroup, or state that the class has none?
Core 6.4
Do we report how many records are grade A?
Core 10
Does the auditor run the reproduction test: read-only access to the live system, no export from the operator, every grade and the coverage recomputed, the snapshot root matched, a test sign-up through each live flow version?
Core 8
The annex
An annex adds its Required items to every level. Choose the one for the jurisdiction the action is brought in.
Annex AT: what the law requires
At filing, at least 50 consumers per defendant, each named in the claim with a specific claim. Where several traders are sued, a count per defendant
Core 6.2, 6.4
Each record holds the person's consumer status as a fact of membership
Core 4.2, 4.3
Per claim, the facts it rests on: the contract or transaction, the clause or act, and the amount claimed, substantiated as far as the facts and evidence are accessible to the QE with reasonable effort and support the claim's plausibility. That lighter standard covers the claims, not the shared facts AT-4 asks for
Core 4.3, 6.5
The facts the claims share, and for each claimant whether they match or how they differ, by liability basis
Core 6.4
Where the QE opens the action to joiners, the abstract criteria as filed, and each joiner's fit against them
Core 3, 6.1
Each record holds its opt-in: the day the QE filed the claim or the Beitritt that names the person, through the channel qe. Per joiner also the request to the QE with its date and channel, the QE's acceptance or refusal, and a Beitritt filed inside the window. A refused request, one not filed in time, or a Beitritt the court rejects is recorded excluded (core 4.1 (1))
Core 4.1 (1), 4.6, 5.3
Per joiner, the declaration on parallel actions, held as parallel_declared
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6
A joiner whose Beitritt was filed stays active unless the court rejects it (AT-6): the record never turns withdrawn
Core 4.1 (1)
Each joiner received the QE's Formblatt with its Belehrung, captured as a flow version
Core 5.1
Any joining fee per joiner, within the cap; where the QE makes joining depend on a funder contract, that contract signed per joiner
Core 9
The payee per claimant and the payout record
Core 5.3, 9
Annex AT: what this standard requires
Deduplication on name and birth date at least, so that namesakes are told apart
Core 4.1 (6), 4.5
The consumers named in the claim hold the declaration on parallel actions too
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6
Annex BE: what the law requires
A class definition and a class size with its method, per sub-category where the group has them, as precise as the representative can make it. The version filed with the requête is kept, since limitation is suspended for everyone it describes
Core 3, 6.1, 6.4
Where the facts behind the claims began before 1 September 2014, each record holds the date the court draws the line by, in VW the date of purchase, and a record before it falls outside the class (core 4.1 (4))
Core 3, 4.1 (4)
Each record holds the person's residence, and for an SME the country of its principal establishment. A person abroad is a member only by an option lodged at the greffe within the window: once the window has closed, the record holds that option with its day and the channel registry, or the channel the judgment or agreement set instead, which the export states as opt_in_channel. The export states the window's first and last day as opt_in_opened_on and opt_in_closed_on
Core 4.6
Where residents opt in as well (after a merits judgment in an action introduced from 10 June 2024, in a settlement that applies opt-in to them or concerns bodily or moral harm, or in an earlier action whose admissibility decision chose opt-in), the export states opt_in_residents as true, and each record holds its option to the greffe in opt_in, with its day and channel. Once the window has closed, a record without one made within it is grade D (core 4.1, rule 8)
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6
The class definition, or each sub-category, states whether the harm claimed is bodily or moral, since only opt-in then applies
Core 3, 6.4
A record whose option reached the greffe after a merits judgment never turns withdrawn
Core 4.1 (1)
Per member, the sub-category claimed under and the data and documents the judgment or agreement prescribes, so that each entry can be tested against the description of the group, its sub-category and the prescribed modalities
Core 4.3, 5.3, 6.4
Where a third party pays for the register or its operator in this action, the requête names it among the funders of the action, with the amount
Core 9
Annex BE: what this standard requires
Every flow version says that signing up with the representative does not make the person a member of the group, and that they join by an option at the greffe within a window a judgment or an approved agreement sets. Consent to any other use of their data is asked apart, and never as a condition of signing up
Core 5.1
Annex CZ: what the law requires
At the admissibility ruling, facts showing at least 10 members of the group with claims on a similar factual and legal basis; both rulings read took them from přihlášky already collected. After the deadline, at least 10 participating members on the list
Core 6.2, 6.4
Each record holds its opt-in: the signed and dated přihláška on the ministry's form, the day it was made and its channel, plaintiff or court. A written consent given before filing counts. A sign-up without a signature that § 5 of the decree accepts holds no opt-in until corrected; the record keeps the request and its deadline (CZ-4)
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6, 5.1, 5.3
Each přihláška states who makes it, which action, what is claimed, and the facts and evidence that make membership credible; it holds the member's bank account, and the e-mail or datová schránka where the member has one
Core 4.3, 6.5
A přihláška made after the deadline, or left uncorrected after the plaintiff's request, is recorded excluded. One that claims more or other than the action seeks, left uncorrected, counts for the part within the action; only one wholly outside it is recorded excluded. The request and its deadline are kept with the record
Core 4.1 (1), 5.3
A withdrawal of the whole přihláška on the ministry's form until the deadline is recorded withdrawn; a partial one leaves the record active for the rest, with the claim amended. One after the deadline has no effect, and the record stays active
Core 4.1 (1)
Each record holds the member's name, surname, residence and date of birth, or rodné číslo or a like unique identifier; for a legal person its name, seat and identification number
Core 4.1 (6)
A member who sued alone first: the přihláška and the record hold the case number of that action
Core 4.6
The register yields the list in the decree's format, with its columns, delivered with every přihláška after the deadline; each version is kept with its day and the snapshot root of that day
Core 5.4, 7
A person the court strikes from the list is recorded excluded, with the day the order became final
Core 4.1 (1), 5.3
The register yields the judgment's annex: each member, whether the claim succeeds, and what each receives
Core 9
Annex FI: what the law requires
Each record holds the facts that place the person within the group the summons defines
Core 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
Each record holds its opt-in: the day the person's written notice reached the claimant, through the channel qe, within the period the court set. A sign-up taken before the court set the period, such as a pre-registration, is not that notice
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6, 5.3
A notice that reached the claimant after the period holds the claimant's decision on it: admitted for a special reason before the refined summons was filed, with the reason, or refused and recorded excluded
Core 4.1 (1), 4.6
Where the claimant requires a sign-up fee, the amount, the day it was paid, and the notice that announced it. A person who did not pay a fee the claimant required is recorded excluded
Core 4.1 (1), 9
Each member's name, address and individualised claim, exportable as the list of the refined summons within one month of the period's end
Core 4.2, 6.5
A record that the claimant notified the known members by post or electronically, with the notice's content, and any notice in a newspaper or by other means
Core 5.1
A withdrawal is recorded withdrawn with the day the member gave written notice to the court, taken from the court's record, and after the transfer to the main hearing the defendant's consent
Core 4.1 (1), 5.3
A claim the claimant drops is recorded excluded with its day: before the refined summons it ends; after it, the record holds whether the member went on alone
Core 4.1 (1)
The members the judgment names, each with the award stated for them, and a contact channel through which the claimant tells them of it
Core 4.1 (7), 5.3
Annex FI: what this standard requires
Each notice states why the person is a member, the claim, the facts behind it and any evidence
Core 4.3, 6.5
Annex DE: what the law requires
A statement that the claims of at least 50 consumers may be affected by the Abhilfeklage, or may depend on each Feststellungsziel of a Musterfeststellungsklage, with its source, at the day of filing or of service of an amended claim. Named records are not needed for it
Core 6.1, 6.4
Each record holds its opt-in: the day the Bundesamt received the person's registration, in Textform, through the channel bfj. Once the § 46(1) window has closed, a record without a registration received within it is grade D (core 4.1, rule 8)
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6, 7
The registration holds every item § 46(2) names: name and address, whether the person registers as a small business, the court and the Aktenzeichen, the defendant, the subject and ground of the claim, and the person's assurance that the details are correct and complete. The subject and ground identify the person's own transaction by parties, place and time; a product's model and year do not. From the day after the window closes, a record whose registration lacks one, or whose subject and ground do not individualise the transaction, is recorded excluded (core 4.1 (1))
Core 4.1 (1), 4.2
A registration withdrawn by the last day of the window makes the record withdrawn. A registrant who leaves a court settlement within the month is recorded opted_out, and their registration stays effective
Core 4.1 (1)
After an Abhilfegrundurteil, a record is evidenced (core 4.3) by the Berechtigungsnachweise the judgment names, held as documents with their digests. A consumer's written declaration, the assurance § 46(2) asks for, or a sworn statement is the person's own word: membership resting on it is declared
Core 4.3, 5.3
Where a third party finances the action, whether a funder or the operator, the agreements with it are disclosed to the court with the claim, and no third party is promised more than 10% of what the defendant pays
Core 9
Annex DE: what this standard requires
Every flow version says that a consumer comes under the action only by registering the claim with the Bundesamt für Justiz. A flow version that does not say so does not inform (core 5.1), and a record that joined through it is grade D until the person confirms through one that does
Core 4.1 (2), 5.1
Each record holds the Geschäftszeichen the Bundesamt gave its registration and the subject and ground as registered, and the register records an opt-in (DE-3) only once it has matched the person to a registration in the extract of § 48(4). The register states how many of its active records it has matched
Core 4.1 (8), 5.3, 6.2, 8
Annex IE: what the law requires
Each record holds its opt-in: the day the person's Form 3 notification reached the QE, through the channel qe, signed and dated, with the trader, the infringement and how the person was affected. A notification made after the court deemed the action admissible is recorded excluded (core 4.1 (1))
Core 4.1 (1), 4.6, 5.1
Each record holds the person's residence. A person resident neither in the State nor in another Member State cannot notify, and the record states in_class false: the class the export states carries that limit
Core 4.1 (4), 4.6
Each record holds the declaration the person signed under s. 25, with its date. With the statement IE-10 adds, it is held as parallel_declared
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6
Where the QE charges an entry fee, the amount, no more than €25, and the day it was paid within the period the QE published. A person who did not pay in time is recorded excluded
Core 4.1 (1), 9
A withdrawal is recorded withdrawn with its date, and the day the QE informed the court
Core 4.1 (1), 5.3
A list of the names or other unique identifiers of the consumers who notified, produced before the admissibility hearing, on each withdrawal and before trial. Each version is kept with the day it was lodged and the snapshot root of that day
Core 5.4, 7
Each record holds the class or classes the person belongs to, so the QE can describe them to the court before admissibility and at judgment
Core 6.1, 6.4
The names the trader receives: at admissibility, those who notified and signed the declaration; at the end, those eligible for redress. Each record holds whether the person obtained compensation by other means for the same cause
Core 4.6, 6.5
A contact channel per person that reaches them with the admissibility determination, the redress ordered and the dates that stop and restart the limitation period
Core 4.1 (7)
Annex IE: what this standard requires
The declaration the QE provides under s. 25 also states that the person is not represented, and does not claim, elsewhere on the same cause of action against the same trader
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6
Annex IT: what the law requires
Each record holds its opt-in: the day the person's domanda di adesione was filed in the court's fascicolo informatico, through the channel pst. A record in the register is support, not adhesion: only the domanda binds the person and makes them eligible for payment. The cross-section (core 6.3) shows those who adhered apart from those yet to file. In an action under art. 140-bis, IT-10 holds instead
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6, 5.3, 6.3
Once the last term for adhesion has closed (the second term after a judgment for the claimant, the first after one that rejects the action, and in an action under art. 140-bis the term the admissibility order set), a record with no domanda filed within a term is grade D (core 4.1, rule 8). A domanda is not cured after its term; documents may still be added at verification
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6, 7
For each adherent, whether the domanda carries every element the law lists: identifying data, a certified address, the object and facts of the claim, the index of documents, the attestation of truth, the mandate to the rappresentante comune, the details for payment and the declaration that the fondo spese was paid
Core 4.2, 5.3
The adherent's contact channel is the certified address the domanda names, the adherent's own or their lawyer's: the registry's communications go there. Where it is the lawyer's, contact_confirmed holds only a channel the adherent confirmed themselves
Core 4.1 (7)
The domanda is presented with the adherent identified by SPID, the CIE or the CNS, or is sent from a digital domicile or a PEC address. A record states verified as eidas only where the register knows the adherent was identified by SPID or the CIE, notified under eIDAS, and at which assurance; the CNS and a transmission from a PEC address set no scheme
Core 4.4
Where the court set a fondo spese, the record holds whether the adherent paid it. In an azione di classe an adherent who did not pay is recorded excluded: the adhesion is void by law. In an azione rappresentativa non-payment does not void the adhesion, and the record stays active
Core 4.1 (1)
Membership against the class as the court defines it: the elements for inclusion the order or the judgment names, and for each adherent the documents it lists, each stored with its digest. The register applies the class as the court fixed it, never a later redraft
Core 3, 4.1 (4), 4.3
A revocation of the mandate to the rappresentante comune makes the record withdrawn. One sent to the representative alone takes the record out of the count as well, and the record notes that the adhesion stands against the defendant until the revocation is in the fascicolo
Core 4.1 (1)
At filing, documents that show the conduct reached a group the court can define, in the same way: where the claim rests on standard terms, more than a single specimen of them. In an azione rappresentativa, also the elements that determine the group and the funding received or promised
Core 3, 6.4, 9
In an action under art. 140-bis where the representative collects adhesions and deposits them: each atto di adesione with its elezione di domicilio, the elements of the right and its documents, and, as the record's opt-in, the day it arrived by the means the court ordered, inside the term. The admissibility order sets the only term: the export states its first and last day as opt_in_opened_on and opt_in_closed_on, and the means as opt_in_channel
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6, 5.3
Annex IT: what this standard requires
The name on each document that places the adherent in the class matches the name on the adhesion; a document in another name is no evidence for the record (core 4.3)
Core 4.3
Promotional contact with identified members of the class only on each person's specific consent, with a notice under art. 13 or 14 GDPR at the first contact; the register holds both for each person it contacted
Core 5.1, 9
Annex NL: what the law requires
A class definition and a class size with its basis. A range so wide that no conclusion follows from it carries little weight
Core 3, 6.1
Coverage against the whole class, at the date the court decides
Core 6.2, 7
The size of the represented claims, where damages are claimed
Core 6.5
Every flow version tells the person which claimant, defendant, claim and period they join
Core 5.1
The count is verified from the foundation's own administration, never from a list the foundation supplies
Core 8
The foundation supplies the figures on its own initiative, in or soon after the writ, and refreshes them for the hearing
Core 7
A published route to join and to leave; a withdrawal takes the record out of the count
Core 4.1 (1), 5.1
For people abroad, once the term the court sets under art. 1018f lid 5 Rv has closed: their written statement to the registry, made within that term, and in a consumer claim under the Directive their statement on parallel actions. The record names the channel as registry, or as the route the court set instead, which the export then states as opt_in_channel: courts adapt the form ('kan de rechter hiervan afwijken', Rb Amsterdam 2025:1859 ro. 3.18, on lid 1). The export states the term's first and last day as opt_in_opened_on and opt_in_closed_on; a consent given at sign-up is not this statement
Core 4.6
Registering and checking the backing is the foundation's own task, whatever it costs
Core 9
Annex NL: what this standard requires
Support attributable to identifiable members of the class, with contact data
Core 4.1 (5, 7), 4.2
Deduplication on more than an e-mail address
Core 4.1 (6), 4.5
Each record affirms membership of the class and support for this claim
Core 4.2
A count per subgroup where the foundation defines subgroups or a subgroup is small
Core 6.4
An operator paid regardless of the outcome, tied to the foundation neither through its board nor through a shareholding, whom the foundation can afford to replace
Core 9
Each record holds the person's residence, and a person abroad counts as support until the term of art. 1018f lid 5 Rv closes, with residents and people abroad shown apart in the cross-section (core 6.3). Where the court defines the class by residence on a date, residence on that date is a fact of membership, and a record of a person who lived abroad then falls outside the class (core 4.1 (4)); the record's residence is the one the opt-in turns on
Core 4.1 (4), 4.6, 6.3
Where a claim covers events before and on or after 15 November 2016, the class size and coverage of each part, with the records coded by part
Core 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
Annex PL: what the law requires
At filing, at least 10 records hold a declaration attached to the claim, each for a claim of one kind on the same or same-type facts, so that each list the claim pleads stands on its own
Core 6.2, 6.4
Each record holds its opt-in: the person's written declaration of joining and the day it reached the representative, through the channel representative. A declaration made after the court's term is recorded excluded (core 4.1 (1)), unless the person sued the defendant on the claim before the group action began and declared before the first instance ended
Core 4.1 (1), 4.6, 5.3
Each declaration states the claim, the facts behind it, why the person is a member, and the evidence
Core 4.3, 6.5
In a money claim each record's membership rests on evidence (core 4.3); in any other claim, on evidence that makes it plausible
Core 4.3
In a money claim, the amount each member claims
Core 6.5
In a member-led action, each declaration attached to the claim holds the person's consent to the named representative
Core 5.1
In a podmiot upoważniony's action, each declaration attached to the claim states whether the person joined another group action, or sued, against the defendant over the same infringement, and how the entity is to reach them. The record holds parallel_declared true only where the statements show no other group action and no own action other than one filed before the group action began, which the court discontinues on joining (art. 13 ust. 2), and the contact channel is the one the declaration names
Core 4.1 (7), 4.1 (8), 4.6
Per record, the day the declaration was presented to the court
Core 5.3
Per record, the defendant's objection to the person and the court's ruling on them. A person the court refuses is recorded excluded
Core 4.1 (1), 5.3
A withdrawal before the composition order is final is recorded withdrawn. After it a withdrawal has no effect and the record stays active, save a member's exit after a settlement in a podmiot upoważniony's action
Core 4.1 (1)
A member whose claim the court discontinues after the composition order, having settled with the defendant or won a separate judgment, is recorded excluded with the day and the reason, and stays in the register
Core 4.1 (1), 5.3
The register yields the judgment's list: every member by name, told apart from namesakes, with the amount due to each, and an extract per member
Core 4.1 (6), 9
In a podmiot upoważniony's action, any joining fee per member: no more than 5% of the member's money claim and 2 000 zł, or 1 000 zł for a claim that is not for money, and no other charge to the member
Core 9
Annex PL: what this standard requires
Every declaration, in either kind of action and whenever made, carries the statements of art. 6 ust. 7 points 1 and 2, held as parallel_declared as PL-7 says
Core 4.1 (8), 4.6
Each declaration is signed by hand, or with a qualified electronic signature
Core 4.6, 5.3
Annex PT: what the law requires
In an action under the DL, for a person abroad: their residence on the date of the citação, and their express will to be represented in this action, with when and how it was given. No form is required beyond that. There is no opt-in window: the export states opt_in_opened_on and opt_in_closed_on as null, and the express will is due from the start. The export states directive as true in such an action and as false in an action under the LAP or Lei n.º 23/2018 alone, where no opt-in is asked
Core 4.6
A resident's refusal of representation takes effect in law only by the person's own express declaration in the court file. A refusal sent to the association alone takes the record out of the count as withdrawn (core 4.1 (1)); the record notes that the person stays represented in law until they file it
Core 4.1 (1)
A foreign qualified entity gives the court 'informações suficientes sobre os consumidores representados na ação coletiva, identificados individualmente ou, quando não seja viável a sua individualização, por categoria'
Core 6.2, 6.3
At distribution: each claim recorded against the identification criteria and the proof the judgment names, with the claim date within the period the judge sets
Core 4.3, 5.3
The sign-up flow offers no legal advice on a person's own claim unless the operator is entitled to give it (Lei n.º 10/2024 arts. 4 and 7), and does not advertise court representation or any other act of lawyers that the operator is not authorised to practise
Core 5.1
What your answers cover
This is a check of your own answers, not a finding. The auditor checks the register, and the representative's board claims the level in its conformance statement (core 8, 11.2).