Hi,

Thanks for sharing the link. Contrary to the subject line, I get the impression that the court did not answer the question on the public domain (as in copyright) status of those harmonized standards that are referenced by EU law. It only answered a specific question on the EU access to documents law and left the second question unanswered. If someone had more time looking at the decision, I would be happy to see a clarification if I am mistaken.

Mathias

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

The CJEU today ruled for Carl Malamud against the European Commission in
C‑588/21 (Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know v. European Commission):

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=283443&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=6375509

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4324488/en/

I've therefore opened a discussion on Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Public_domain_status_of_European_harmonised_standards

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:EN_301_549_V3.2.1_(2021-03).pdf

Some relevant snippets from the ruling:

«a harmonised standard, adopted on the basis of a directive [...] forms
part of EU law»

«the rule of law, which requires free access to EU law for all natural
or legal persons of the European Union»

«there is an overriding public interest [...] justifying the disclosure
of the requested harmonised standards»

«As is apparent [...] the Commission should have acknowledged [...] the
existence of an overriding public interest»

Best,
Federico
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