Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply: 1. ‘publishing’ means any action necessary for the design, checking, allocation of international standard numbers and/or catalogue numbers, production, cataloguing, indexation, distribution, promotion, sale, storage and archiving of publications in any shape or form and by any means, present or future; 2. ‘publications’ means all texts, published on whatever medium and in whatever format, bearing an international standard number and/or a catalogue number; 3. ‘mandatory publications’ means publications published pursuant to the Treaties or other legislative texts; 4. ‘non-mandatory publications’ means any publications edited under the prerogatives of any institution; 5. ‘management of copyright’ means that the author services hold the copyright or the right to reuse and includes the management of those rights by the Office in respect of the publications entrusted to the Office for publishing; 6. ‘net receipts from sales’ means the total sum of invoices, minus trade discounts granted and management, collection and banking costs; 7. ‘institutions’ means the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies established by or under the Treaties.