diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES
index 7bf43b926..3e27637d7 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES
@@ -652,42 +652,42 @@ maven/mavencentral/org.yaml/snakeyaml/2.3, Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-C
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/annotations/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/annotations/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/apache-client/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/apache-client/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/apache-client/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/arns/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/arns/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/arns/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/auth/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/auth/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-core/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-core/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-core/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-query-protocol/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-query-protocol/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-xml-protocol/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-xml-protocol/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/aws-xml-protocol/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/checksums-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/checksums-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/checksums-spi/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/checksums/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/checksums/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/checksums/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/crt-core/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/crt-core/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/crt-core/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/endpoints-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/endpoints-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/endpoints-spi/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-aws-eventstream/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-aws-eventstream/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-aws-eventstream/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-aws/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-aws/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-aws/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth-spi/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-auth/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-client-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/http-client-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/iam/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/identity-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/identity-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/identity-spi/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/json-utils/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/json-utils/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/json-utils/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/metrics-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/metrics-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/metrics-spi/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/netty-nio-client/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/netty-nio-client/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/profiles/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
@@ -697,17 +697,17 @@ maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/protocol-core/2.28.12, , restricted, c
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/regions/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/regions/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/retries-spi/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/retries-spi/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/retries-spi/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/retries/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/retries/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/s3-transfer-manager/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/retries/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/s3-transfer-manager/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/s3/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/s3/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/s3/2.28.12, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/sdk-core/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, #15695
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/sdk-core/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/sts/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/third-party-jackson-core/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, #15693
-maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/third-party-jackson-core/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
+maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/third-party-jackson-core/2.28.12, Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause, restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/utils/2.26.27, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.awssdk/utils/2.28.12, , restricted, clearlydefined
 maven/mavencentral/software.amazon.eventstream/eventstream/1.0.1, Apache-2.0, approved, clearlydefined
diff --git a/docs/development/decision-records/2024-10-04-Retire-agreements/README.md b/docs/development/decision-records/2024-10-04-Retire-agreements/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..98ed73222
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+++ b/docs/development/decision-records/2024-10-04-Retire-agreements/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Tractus-X Contract Agreement Retirement
+
+## Decision
+
+Implement a mechanism that allows a dataset provider to _prematurely_ retire an active contract agreement, terminating all
+related transfer processes and stopping new data transfer requests.
+
+## Rational
+
+The need to prematurely retire an active contract agreement exists if, for example,
+the contract agreement is a digital representation of a physical agreement which might have changed via legal
+mechanisms, hence resulting in a new contract. The digital representation is no longer valid and shouldn't allow any data transfers.
+
+Contract agreements are immutable entities by design and should only expire once the contractual terms agreed upon between participants no longer holds.
+Considering such restriction, the implemented solution should provide a mechanism that allows for contract agreement retirement
+without changing the existing contract agreement feature.
+
+## Approach
+
+An `AgreementRetirementStore` will be introduced to persist `AgreementRetirementEntry` entities that represent contract agreement
+retirements.
+
+A policy function will be introduced that checks if the attached contract agreement exists in the `AgreementRetirementStore`.
+If true, the evaluation is considered failed. This policy function shall be registered both in the `policy-monitor` and `transfer` scopes. 
+In both cases, a failed policy evaluation leads to transfer process termination.
+
+An API will also be introduced to enable dataset providers to manage `AgreementRetirementEntry` entities in the `AgreementRetirementStore`.
+
+### AgreementRetirementEntry entity
+
+A new entity will be created to represent an agreement retirement. This entity contains the following attributes:
+
+- `agreementId` -> The id of the retired contract agreement.
+- `reason` -> The reason why the contract agreement was retired.
+- `agreementRetirementDate` -> A date (as timestamp) when the contract agreement was retired.
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