### 5.2.4 Roles requiring separation of duties
1. The CA MUST enforce rigorous control procedures for the separation of validation duties to ensure that no one person can single-handedly validate and authorize the issuance of an EV Code Signing Certificate. The Final Cross-Correlation and Due Diligence steps, as outlined in [Section 3.2.9](#32229-verification-of-approval-of-ev-code-signing-certificate-request), MAY be performed by one of the persons. For example, one Validation Specialist MAY review and verify all the Applicant information and a second Validation Specialist MAY approve issuance of the EV Code Signing Certificate.
2. Such controls MUST be auditable.