Can the Polish Standards be copied?

Pursuant to Article 5(5) of the Standardization Act of 12 September 2002 (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 1483), which entered into force on 1 January 2003, the Polish Standards are protected like literary works, and the author’s economic rights belong to the national standards body, the Polish Committee for Standardization.

No copies of the standards can be made.

The Polish Standards may only be reproduced with the PKN’s official consent, and only with regard to specific fragments thereof (tables, drawings etc.), up to 30% of the standard’s volume. Specific terms and conditions of granting consent to the reproduction of the Polish Standards are described in the Rules of consent to the use of copyrights to the Polish Standards and other standardization documents. Proceedings related to consents to the reproduction of the PNs and national, international, European and foreign standardization publications are conducted by the External Relations Department.

For all information on copyrights to the Polish Standards under the Standardization Act and the Copyrights and Related Rights Act, please email the PKN’s Legal Team zprsekr@pkn.pl.