But that database is used only by Veterans Affairs for its own contracts; other agencies allow small businesses to "self certify" that they are owned and controlled by disabled veterans.
The news comes after the invalidation of the 15-year-old safe harbour agreement, which deemed European citizens' data transferred between the EU and US as being adequately protected, allowing US companies to self certify their data protection practices.
Critics have also argued Safe Harbour is lax and weak, since it allows US companies to voluntarily self certify and therefore hardly offers copper-bottomed data protection safeguards.
"And here we have in the background the fact that the Safe Harbor system is self certification, and we have in the background the recent activity by the FTC on companies that haven't data self certified, they've not kept their certification up to date, they haven't really done what they've said they've done.
That said, the bill would allow large businesses to continue to self certify, but would require them to do so annually.
In Report 5-16, the SBA OIG reported that in some cases large businesses received federal small business contracts because current policy allows large businesses to self certify their status as small businesses.
5 In the UK, after one week of a patient's self certified sickness absence, general practitioners act as the immediate gateway to these benefits by issuing sickness certificates or "statements of incapacity for work" to patients when they are ill so that they can be absent from work without loss of income, until work capability assessments can be conducted within 13 weeks.
"Manufacturers self-certify".
The agency also granted Boeing the authority to self-certify some of its work.
Now, all they need to do is "self-certify" that they see just fine.
After that, individuals can self-certify as experienced investors by filling out a form.
