# Verification record — `nl/kvk/sole-proprietorship-registration-eenmanszaak` v1.0.0 This file is the **source-review record** for this document version, per the [`manual-source-review-v1`](../../../../../practices/manual-source-review-v1.md) practice. ## Current claim - **`status`:** `draft` - **`verification.method`:** `manual-source-review-v1` - **`verification.lastVerifiedAt`:** `2026-07-03` ## Sources examined - **Document `(id, version)`:** `nl/kvk/sole-proprietorship-registration-eenmanszaak` / `1.0.0` - **Spec version:** GovSchema `0.3.0` - **Authority:** Netherlands Chamber of Commerce ("KVK", Kamer van Koophandel). - **Primary source:** KVK Form 1 (Formulier 1) — "Register an eenmanszaak (sole proprietorship)", English translation of version August 2025, downloaded directly from (linked from ). This is a genuine, official, fillable AcroForm PDF, retrieved with a direct `curl` fetch (HTTP 200, no block). - **Cross-referenced pages:** - — confirms the form's fields and the general registration flow narrative. - — confirms the in-person KVK appointment requirement. - **Field extraction method:** `pdfjs-dist`'s `getAnnotations()` (AcroForm field names, types, checkbox export values, and each field's PDF-level `required` flag) and `getTextContent()` (visible label/instruction text), run against every page of the PDF — the same rigor as `ca/on/registration/business-incorporation` and `de/gewerbeamt/business-registration`'s static-PDF extractions, and stronger than `sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration`'s automated-fetch-and-summarize sourcing (Bizfile has no downloadable form at all). The PDF is bilingual: pages 1-5 are the English translation (this document's primary source for field labels/descriptions), pages 6-10 are the authoritative Dutch original: `getAnnotations()` on both page sets confirmed **identical field names and checkbox export values** across the English/Dutch mirror (e.g. `1.1_onderneming`, `2.4.1_verkoop-1`), which is what the form's own "About the English version of this form" section states ("If you answer a question in the digital English form, the same answer is automatically filled in on the Dutch form"). - **Retrieved / reviewed:** 2026-07-03. - **Reviewer:** GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review). ## What was confirmed against the source | Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Form 1, §1.1: start/continue choice and dates | `registrationType`, `startDate`, `existingBusinessName`, `existingBusinessLocation`, `existingBusinessKvkNumber`, `continuationDate` | | Form 1, §1.1 (continued, page 2): original establishment date | `originalEstablishmentDate` | | Form 1, §2.1: trade name(s) | `primaryTradeName`, `hasAdditionalTradeNames`, `additionalTradeNames` | | Form 1, §2.2-2.3: activities | `businessActivities`, `mainBusinessActivity` | | Form 1, §2.4: retail/consumer sales and channels | `sellsToConsumersRetail`, `retailInShop`, `retailAtMarket`, `retailViaStreetTrading`, `retailViaInternet`, `retailFromHome`, `retailOtherChannel`, `retailOtherChannelDescription` | | Form 1, §2.5-2.7: wholesale/import/export | `sellsWholesale`, `importsGoods`, `exportsGoods` | | Form 1, §2.8-2.10: visiting/postal address, shielding | `businessVisitingAddress`, `hasDifferentPostalAddress`, `businessPostalAddress`, `shieldVisitingAddress` | | Form 1, §2.11: contact details | `businessPhoneNumber1`, `businessPhoneNumber2`, `businessWebsiteUrl`, `businessEmailAddress` | | Form 1, §2.12: staff numbers | `employeeCount15PlusHoursPerWeek`, `employeeCountUnder15HoursPerWeek` | | Form 1, §3.1: owner details | `ownerLastName`, `ownerFirstNames`, `ownerCitizenServiceNumber`, `ownerDateOfBirth`, `ownerPlaceOfBirth`, `ownerCountryOfBirth`, `ownerGender`, `ownerHomeAddress` | | Form 1, §4.1: advertising/marketing preference | `allowMarketingUseOfAddress` | | Form 1, §5.1: Waadi Act hiring-out-employees notification | `hiresOutEmployeesForPayment` | | Form 1, §6: signing, accepted identity-document types | `signerLastNameAndInitials`, `signerEmail`, `signerPhoneNumber`, `signingDate`, `documents[].ownerIdentityProof`, `documents[].ownerHandwrittenSignature` | ## What is NOT independently confirmed / out of scope - **No PDF-level `required` flags.** Every one of KVK Form 1's AcroForm fields was programmatically checked (`getAnnotations()[].required`) and **none** set the PDF's own Required bit — unlike a submission portal, a paper/print form of this kind typically leaves required-ness to be enforced at the in-person appointment, not the PDF widget. This document's `required: true`/`requiredWhen` assignments are therefore derived from the form's own prose instructions and standard registration necessity (core identity, trade name, activity, address, and signature-block fields), the same honesty discipline `au/ato/individual-tax-return-mytax` and `sg/iras/individual-income-tax-return-formb1` applied to their own prose-derived requiredness. `businessPhoneNumber1`/`businessEmailAddress` are modelled as required (a registration needs at least one way to contact the business) while `businessPhoneNumber2`/`businessWebsiteUrl` are modelled as optional, consistent with the form's own "Telephone number 1"/"Telephone number 2" ordinal naming implying the second is supplementary. - **BSN (citizen service number) format.** `ownerCitizenServiceNumber` is modelled with an `8-or-9-digit` pattern based on the BSN's publicly-documented general format (Dutch central government sources: a BSN is 8 or 9 decimal digits, no letters or separators), not a pattern confirmed against KVK Form 1's own field validation, which imposes no length constraint on this text field. The same discipline `sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration` applied to Singapore's 6-digit postal code (a public fact, independently pattern-asserted) versus its NRIC/FIN (not independently confirmed, left as free text). The BSN's eleven-test (`elfproef`) checksum is not asserted at all. - **Existing-business KVK number format.** `existingBusinessKvkNumber` is modelled with an 8-digit pattern based on the Business Register's publicly-documented KVK-number format, not a pattern confirmed against this specific form field. - **Partnerships (vennootschap onder firma, VOF).** KVK publishes a separate, structurally similar registration form/flow for partnerships (two or more owners); this document scopes to the single-owner eenmanszaak path only, consistent with this registry's single-entity/single-owner scoping convention (e.g. `sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration`'s sole-proprietorship-only scope, `ca/on/registration/business-incorporation`'s single director/incorporator). - **Online pre-fill path (`kvk.nl/eenmanszaakregistration`).** The KVK website also offers an online form that pre-fills the same paper Form 1; it was not independently reviewed, since KVK's own guidance states an in-person appointment is required either way and the field set is the same underlying Form 1 — see "Path to a `verified` claim" below. - **Fees.** The registration fee is not modelled as authoritative structured data — no fee amount was reviewed for this document at all (not referenced in any field description), unlike several other Business Formation schemas in this registry that reference (but do not assert) a fee for context. - **Address decomposition.** Addresses are modelled as flat single-line strings (`businessVisitingAddress`, `businessPostalAddress`, `ownerHomeAddress`), matching the PDF's own single free-text address boxes (§2.8, §2.9.1, §3.1) rather than a decomposed street/number/postal code/city object — the PDF genuinely does not break the address box down further, unlike `sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration`'s address-line/unit-number/postal-code triple (which reflects Bizfile's own guide sectioning). - **In-person appointment / identity verification at KVK.** Not modelled as a field or step; KVK's own guidance states registration is only completed in person at a KVK office regardless of how the form was filled in. This document's scope ends at preparing the form's answers. ## Scope and jurisdiction notes - This is the **first schema in this registry for the Netherlands (NL)**, a new jurisdiction discovered during the GOV-829 "GovSchema Standard Research" cycle after auditing `discovery/catalog.json` and finding no unauthored candidates remaining in any of the 6 focus verticals (DMV, Business Formation, Visa, Passport, Taxes, National ID & Civic Documents) across all 9 previously-catalogued jurisdictions (US, GB, IE, CA, NZ, AU, DE, SG, plus FR which had been added to the registry without being added to `discovery/catalog.json`'s `scope.jurisdictions` — fixed in this same commit alongside adding NL). - Business Formation was chosen for the first NL schema because KVK Form 1 is a directly downloadable, genuinely fillable AcroForm PDF with a stable field structure (unlike a login-gated portal), giving the strongest sourcing rigor available for a first entry in a new jurisdiction. - Conditional flow is expressed with `requiredWhen`/`visibleWhen` (GSP-0013) rather than `transitions`/`exitReason`, because neither the "new vs. continuing" choice nor any retail-channel/address sub-question disqualifies the applicant from registering — every path leads to the same registration, just with a different subset of applicable fields. This differs from `sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration`'s eligibility-gate `transitions`, which genuinely exit the flow for foreign-owner paths this registry doesn't model. - The multi-select retail-channel checkbox group (§2.4.1: shop / market / street trading / internet / from home / other) has no `array` field type in GovSchema v0.3 (`$defs.field.properties.type` is a closed string/number/integer/boolean/date/enum/file/object enum), so each checkbox option is modelled as its own optional boolean field, gated `visibleWhen sellsToConsumersRetail: true` — the same decomposition this registry uses wherever a source form presents a non-exclusive multi-select checkbox group. ## Path to a `verified` claim (next step) To advance to `status: verified`, a reviewer completes an actual KVK appointment (or has independent confirmation from someone who has) with a mock/test eenmanszaak registration, confirming: the exact requiredness KVK enforces at the appointment for every field in this document, the BSN and existing-KVK-number validation KVK itself applies, and whether the online `kvk.nl/eenmanszaakregistration` pre-fill path exposes any field this document's paper-form sourcing does not — and records the outcome here, shipping a new schema version if discrepancies are found (VERSIONING.md §3, immutability). ## Re-verification Per the practice's Cadence, `nextReviewBy` is set to **2027-01-01** (6 months).