Responsibilities of the institutions
Article 4
1. Each institution shall have exclusive competence to take decisions on the publishing of its own publications. 2. The institutions shall use the services of the Office to publish their mandatory publications. 3. The institutions may publish their non-mandatory publications without the involvement of the Office. In that case, they shall ask the Office for international standard numbers and/or catalogue numbers and give the Office an electronic version of the publication, whatever its format, as well as two paper copies of the publication where appropriate. 4. The institutions shall undertake to guarantee all reproduction, translation and distribution rights in respect of all the constituent elements of a publication. 5. The institutions shall undertake to establish a distribution plan, approved by the Office, for their publications. 6. The institutions may conclude service agreements with the Office in order to define the methods of their cooperation.