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The technical specifications meet the following requirements: maintenance: ongoing support and maintenance of published specifications are guaranteed over a long period; availability: specifications are publicly available for implementation and use on reasonable terms (including for a reasonable fee or free of charge); 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; relevance: the specifications are effective and relevant; specifications need to respond to market needs and regulatory requirements; neutrality and stability: specifications whenever possible are performance oriented rather than based on design or descriptive characteristics; specifications do not distort the market or limit the possibilities for implementers to develop competition and innovation based upon them; specifications are based on advanced scientific and technological developments; quality: the quality and level of detail are sufficient to permit the development of a variety of competing implementations of interoperable products and services; standardised interfaces are not hidden or controlled by anyone other than the organisations that adopted the technical specifications.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.