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This profile supports a process of submitting notifications by a Contracting Authority to a Publication body. It is intended to support transmission of electronic documents for processing in semi-automated processes by the receiver. The legal requirements that were taken into account are requirements from European legislation, in particular the EU directives, mentioned in section 6 of this profile. The intended scope for this profile is Government to Government (G2G) to support Business to Government (B2G) contracting. The transactions, specified in this profile are intended to be exchanged between the application systems of Contracting Authorities and Publication bodies. This means that it is expected that the parties have connected their systems to the internet, and that they have middleware in place to enable them to send and receive the transactions in a secure way, using an agreed syntax. The content model of the transactions can also be used in platforms or portals, so that these platforms are based on the same information and process models, which makes them more interoperable. Even if platforms are not technically interoperable, the content model facilitates understanding the tendering documents and to participate in the publication process. eNotification refers to the process of notifying procurement stakeholders of a procurement procedure, Generally, this is done by means of an official publication, The messages used in this process, and particularly the actual notice, are prepared and exchanged electronically. The actual publication may be available in an electronic medium as well as on paper. The process is centred on the notice publisher. This notice publisher may receive the notice directly from the notice originator or from another notice submitter, which may be part of a publisher network. He also may submit the notice to another publisher himself. In the context of publication dissemination, the publisher may also provide process ...