Whether your Office is using Hague Web Services (HWS) or EDI SFTP to interface with the Hague System, the electronic payload is the exactly same. This makes it quite easy for EDI users to migrate to HWS. The only difference is that HWS allow no more than one record per payload, whereas EDI allows multiple records in a single payload. As a consequence, EDI Offices that already send single record payloads can, from this perspective, migrate to HWS right away.

Office to IB communications are of the following sort:

• indirect applications
• decisions, such as:
  • grants of protection (partial or total)
  • refusals (partial or total)
  • withdrawals of refusal (partial or total)
  • declarations that a change of ownership has no effect
  • withdrawals of a declaration that a change of ownership has no effect
  • divisions
  • refusals of correction
  • withdrawals of refusal of correction
  • invalidations
  • invitations to pay the second part of the fee
  • notifications that the second part of the fee was paid
  • cancellations for non payment of the second part of the fee

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Although the official ST.96 version in force in the Hague System is 7.0, the latter accepts the following ST.96 versions in Hague electronic payloads, for backward compatibility reasons:

• 7.0
• 4.0
• 3.2T1

XML headers

Below is the correct header to have at the top of the XML file for it to be validated against the correct XSD:

7.0

<dgn:HagueOfficeToIBTransaction com:st96Version="V7_0" xmlns:com="http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/Common" xmlns:dgn="http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/Design" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/Design https://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/V7_0/Design/Flatten/HagueOfficeToIBTransaction_V7_0.xsd">

4.0

<dgn:HagueOfficeToIBTransaction com:st96Version="V4_0" xmlns:com="http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/Common" xmlns:dgn="http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/Design" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/Design https://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/ST96/V4_0/Design/Flatten/HagueOfficeToIBTransaction_V4_0.xsd">

Transaction main tags

The ST.96 tag to use for the various transactions that can be conveyed from your Office to the IB is as follows:

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