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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Some clarifications after a day of comments and more details:

Please really read and understand what I am saying.

- This is about Harmonised Standards [1], a group of standards created by CEN, CENELEC, ETSI on request of the commission. So this is NOT about all ISO standards.

- The decision sets a precedent for all harmonised standards to be made freely available by deciding on 4 specific standards where it is recognised that public interest is more important.

[1] single-market-economy.ec.europ

6 March at 11:35 | Open on social.wildeboer.net
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

The reasons given by the court give a lot of leeway to argue that public interest outweighs protection rights in many more cases and IMHO it hints at that being the default going forward.

6 March at 11:38 | Open on social.wildeboer.net
katzenberger

@jwildeboer This is huge. I have hopes this is a first step towards opening the door to further legal action by other parties, so that also purely national standards will become freely available to those wo are expected to comply with them

For instance, as a #car driver in #Germany I have to carry an emergency kit that conforms to "#DIN 13164". I can buy a ready-made kit, but I can neither verify it actually does, nor assemble one of my own - unless I pay 49.20€ for a PDF download of that norm

6 March at 18:07 | Open on social.tchncs.de
kiviheimo

@jwildeboer I bet quite many engineering companies are happy!
Get the logic, because even national laws are e.g. requiring to comply with EN 13480 for metallic piping and all the separate parties are now buying their own versions of the harmonized standard.

6 March at 19:10 | Open on mastodon.social
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