<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@uint8_t" class="u-url mention">@<span>uint8_t</span></a></span> In March 2024, the was a ruling by the European Court of Justice, which basically said that all standards that are mandatory for products must be free of charge.</p><p>I just looked up what's the current state of this:</p><p>There is now an official web site where you can request free access to european standards, and access those that were sucessfully requested by others: <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request/home" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ec.europa.eu/transparency/docu</span><span class="invisible">ments-request/home</span></a></p><p>It explicitly says that everyone may use it, not just people in the EU.</p><p>(See caveats in replies!)</p>
