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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1025/annex-II/division-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2012/1025",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation, amending Council Directives 89/686/EEC and 93/15/EEC and Directives 94/9/EC, 94/25/EC, 95/16/EC, 97/23/EC, 98/34/EC, 2004/22/EC, 2007/23/EC, 2009/23/EC and 2009/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decision 87/95/EEC and Decision No 1673/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1025",
  "path": "annex/II/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The technical specifications meet the following requirements:",
  "text": "(a) maintenance: ongoing support and maintenance of published specifications are guaranteed over a long period;\n(b) availability: specifications are publicly available for implementation and use on reasonable terms (including for a reasonable fee or free of charge);\n(c) intellectual property rights essential to the implementation of specifications are licensed to applicants on a (fair) reasonable and non-discriminatory basis ((F)RAND), which includes, at the discretion of the intellectual property right-holder, licensing essential intellectual property without compensation;\n(d) relevance:\n(i) the specifications are effective and relevant;\n(ii) specifications need to respond to market needs and regulatory requirements;\n(e) neutrality and stability:\n(i) specifications whenever possible are performance oriented rather than based on design or descriptive characteristics;\n(ii) specifications do not distort the market or limit the possibilities for implementers to develop competition and innovation based upon them;\n(iii) specifications are based on advanced scientific and technological developments;\n(f) quality:\n(i) the quality and level of detail are sufficient to permit the development of a variety of competing implementations of interoperable products and services;\n(ii) standardised interfaces are not hidden or controlled by anyone other than the organisations that adopted the technical specifications.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/1025/annex/II/division/4",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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