Policy on dissemination, sales and copyright of CEN-CENELEC Publications

This Guide sets out the policy for the copyright, dissemination and sale of CEN-CENELEC Publications at all stages of their development, together with their national implementations and national products containing them, in all formats, distributed by all media and in all language versions in all territories.
This Guide establishes practices in line with competition law and with the World Trade Organization (WTO) criteria regarding dissemination of adopted standards under the openness criterion and the criterion on effectiveness and relevance in terms of availability to users.
This Guide replaces CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2015.

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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-marec-2018
Politika razširjanja, prodaje in avtorskih pravic za publikacije CEN-CENELEC
Policy on dissemination, sales and copyright of CEN-CENELEC Publications
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/CLC Guide 10:2017
ICS:
01.120 Standardizacija. Splošna Standardization. General
pravila rules
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

CEN-CENELEC
GUIDE
Policy on dissemination,
sales and copyright of CEN-
CENELEC Publications
Edition 4, 2017-11
(Supersedes CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2015)

CEN and CENELEC decided to adopt this CEN-CENELEC Guide 10 through CENELEC/AG Decision
AG58/C04 and CEN/AG Resolution AG Resolution 35/2017 both taken by correspondence in
November 2017 respectively.
European Committee for Standardization
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Fax: +32 2 550 08 19
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
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1040 Brussels – Belgium
www.cen.eu
www.cenelec.eu
www.cencenelec.eu
CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2017 (E)
Contents Page
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 Terms and definitions . 5
3 Guiding principles . 8
4 Copyright . 9
4.1 General . 9
4.2 Copyright ownership . 9
4.3 Exploitation rights . 9
4.4 Protecting copyright . 10
4.5 Copyright statements and watermarking . 10
4.6 Digital Rights Management (DRM) . 11
4.7 Adoption of a Publication of a Standards Developing Organization . 11
5 Distribution and dissemination of Publications . 11
5.1 Fundamental principles . 11
5.2 Role of CCMC . 11
5.3 Role of Members . 11
5.4 Marketing . 12
6 Third party distributors. 13
7 Sponsored access. 13
8 Distribution of CWAs in the R&D and ICT domains (prepayment policy) . 14
9 Reproduction requests received by Members . 14
9.1 Multi-user Licences (Network Licences) and other licences . 14
9.2 Fair practice . 14
9.3 Requests from National Standardization Bodies and National Committees of third
countries and other third parties . 15
10 Reproduction requests received by CCMC . 15
10.1 General . 15
10.2 Fair practice . 15
10.3 Multi-user licenses (Networking licences) and other licences . 15
10.4 Requests from Affiliates, CSBs and National Standardization Bodies and National

Committees of third countries . 15
11 Language Versions . 16
11.1 Official language versions . 16
11.2 Definitive language versions . 16
11.3 Other language versions . 16
Annex A Access to standards paid by a sponsor . 17
Annex B Requests received by CCMC for distribution of European Standards for
implementation or reproduction by Affiliates, CSBs, National Standards Bodies (NSB) and

National Committees (NC) from other third countries and Regional Standards Organizations . 18

CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2017 (E)
Introduction
The exploitation of copyright in CEN and CENELEC Publications is a main source of income for the
majority of Members and a cornerstone of the sustainability of the CEN-CENELEC standardization
system.
Therefore, sales must be based on commercial principles and conducted in a way that secures the
value and content of the Publications to CEN, CENELEC, their Members and the end users.
Members and all other organizations that sell and disseminate CEN-CENELEC Publications must also
ensure that they do their best to protect the value of CEN-CENELEC Publications.
Compliance with this Guide is mandatory for CEN-CENELEC Members, Affiliates, Companion
Standardization Bodies, the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre, other recognized stakeholders and
any distributor or licensee of these parties.
CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2017 (E)
1 Scope
This Guide sets out the policy for the copyright, dissemination and sale of CEN-CENELEC
Publications at all stages of their development, together with their national implementations and
national products containing them, in all formats, distributed by all media and in all language versions
in all territories.
This Guide establishes practices in line with competition law and with the World Trade Organization
(WTO) criteria regarding dissemination of adopted standards under the openness criterion and the
criterion on effectiveness and relevance in terms of availability to users.
This Guide replaces CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2015.
2 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this Guide, the following terms and definitions shall apply:
2.1
affiliate
according to CEN-CENELEC Guide 12 “The concept of Affiliation with CEN and CENELEC”
2.2
available free of charge
making a Publication available to the general public or to any target group without any form of
payment
2.3
CEN-CENELEC
CEN or CENELEC, or CEN and CENELEC jointly, depending on the context
2.4
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre
CCMC
Management Centre of CEN and CENELEC or its staff, according to context

2.5
CEN/CENELEC Workshop
working platform open to the participation of any interested parties for elaboration of CEN/CENELEC
Workshop Agreements (see also CEN-CENELEC Guide 29 on “CEN/CENELEC Workshop
Agreements)
2.6
CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement (CWA)
CEN/CENELEC agreement, developed by a Workshop, which reflects the agreement of identified
individuals and organizations responsible for its contents. It is a document made available by
CEN/CENELEC in at least one of the official languages (see CEN-CENELEC Guide 29)

2.7
copyright
rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works (World Intellectual Property Organization
[WIPO] definition)
CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2017 (E)
2.8
definitive language version
publication translated by a CEN-CENELEC Member, Affiliate or Companion Standardization Bodies
from an official language version into its national language(s), the accuracy of which has been certified
in accordance with the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations
2.9
definitive text
text of a Publication disseminated by CCMC, after approval of a CEN-CENELEC Publication
2.10
dissemination
circulation of CEN-CENELEC Publications between CCMC and Members
2.11
distributor
third party appointed by a Member to assist in the national or transnational distribution of Publications,
but not involved in the preparation and drafting of Publications
Note 1 to entry: For the purposes of this Guide, a Member acting as a distributor for another Member shall not
be regarded as a distributor.
2.12
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute, responsible for the development and publication of
European telecommunication standards
2.13
European Standard
EN
normative document adopted and made available by CEN-CENELEC in the three official languages
and disseminated by CCMC to the Members for implementation as an identical national standard, as
referred to in the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations Part 2 Clause 1.2 (see 2.27)
2.14
exploitation right
right given by a rights-holder (licensor) to a third party (licensee) to exploit the content of a
copyrighted work
2.15
fair practice
as recalled in Article 10 of the Berne Convention, condition under which CEN and/or CENELEC and
their Members can allow the use of extracts of their copyrighted Publications by third parties without
payment of royalties
2.16
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission, responsible for the development and publication of
International electrotechnical Standards
Note 1 to entry: All CENELEC Members are members of IEC.

CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2017 (E)
2.17
ISO
International Organization for Standardization, responsible for the development and publication of
International Standards.
Note 1 to entry: All CEN Members are members of ISO.
2.18
Joint Commercial Advisory Group
JCAG
joint committee of CEN and CENELEC advising on all issues relating to the dissemination, sales and
copyright of Publications
2.19
Member
CEN National Standardization Body (NSB) and CENELEC National Committee (NC)
2.20
metadata
data that helps describe or identify Publications, including titles, designations, abstracts, editions,
dates of publications and other descriptive elements, as compiled and structured by CEN-CENELEC
and their Members
2.21
multi user licence (networking licence)
licence granting a customer organization the right to store or access the electronic copy of a
Publication for internal use only and to share the Publication with colleagues based on an agreement
with commercial terms
2.22
national designation
national identification of a Member, not necessarily identical to its acronym, added as a prefix to the
European designation to all pages of the national implementation of a Publication
Note 1 to entry: see CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations Part 3, Annex ZC.2.
2.23
national identifier
Acronym, abbreviation or the name of a Member which is added as national identification to all pages
of any Publication
2.24
national implementation
process of giving a CEN-CENELEC Publication the status of a national publication, identical in
technical content and presentation (except translation) either by publication of an identical text or by
endorsement, as defined in the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations Part 2
2.25
national language
language(s) officially spoken in a national territory
2.26
national territory
country in which a Member, Affiliate, Companion Standardization Bodies or otherwise has its
principal seat of operations, together with any of the country’s territories outside its main boundaries

CEN-CENELEC Guide 10:2017 (E)
2.27
official language version
publication prepared in one of the three official languages of CEN-CENELEC (English, French and
German) in accordance with the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations
2.28
Companion Standardization Body (CSB)
according to CEN-CENELEC Guide 13 “The concept of Companion Standardization Body with CEN
and CENELEC”
2.29
(CEN or CENELEC) Publication
documents as referred to in the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations Part 2 Clause 1.2 (except CEN-
CENELEC Guides) including International Standards implemented as European Standards, together
with their national implementations and definitive language versions, and any other CEN-CENELEC
documents as might be identified
2.30
sponsored access
online read-only access to selected Publications to a specified user group free of charge, prepaid by a
third party sponsor
2.31
regional standards organization
organizations normally composed of National Standardization Bodies (NSB) and/or National
Committees (NC) from countries in a
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