# Community Sovereign

<div id="bkmrk-%F0%9F%A4%9D-community-sovereig" style="border-top:5px solid #6b3a9e;border-radius:10px;padding:24px;background:#f3eef9;margin-bottom:24px"><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;gap:14px;margin-bottom:16px"> <span style="font-size:2.4em">🤝</span><div>## Community Sovereign

 <span style="background:#6b3a9e;color:#fff;padding:3px 12px;border-radius:12px;font-size:0.8em">SOVEREIGN</span> </div></div>**Who holds this role:** Indigenous territorial councils (cabildos), Afro-Colombian community boards (consejos comunitarios), campesino associations with collective land title

<div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr;gap:16px;margin:16px 0"><div style="background:#fff;border-radius:8px;padding:16px">#### ✅ Permitted Actions

- Grant or revoke FPIC for territory-level data collection
- Set purpose limitations on community data (e.g. EUDR only, no carbon market use)
- Require benefit-sharing terms before validator access
- Audit all uses of community data at any time

 </div><div style="background:#fff;border-radius:8px;padding:16px">#### 🚫 Prohibited Actions

- Submit individual parcel data (use Data Submitter role)
- Override individual member consent
- Transfer sovereignty credential to another entity without community resolution

 </div></div><div style="background:#fff;border-radius:8px;padding:14px;margin-top:12px"> **Required Credential:** `cth:CommunityCredential`</div><div style="margin-top:14px;font-size:0.9em;color:#555">Issued after verification of legal collective title or territorial recognition; held by council secretary; multi-sig (3-of-5 council members) for revocation. The Community Sovereign's FPIC block is structural — enforced at Postgres row-level security below OPA. No board vote, no emergency patch, no API call can override it. This is non-negotiable.</div></div>