By saying that I didn't realize it was different in Europe. Often when we (Canada) do something different than the US, it's because it's closer to how it's done in Europe and I assumed this was one of those cases.
I'm planning on looking into this more when I have some free time as I'd like to understand where our approach to both documents came from.
Started playing Spiritfarer and UFO50 in the last couple weeks and will likely play them into the beginning of 2025.