A Guide is a document published by CEN or CENELEC giving rules, orientation, advice or recommendations relating to European standardization.
Guides may be established with a view to:
- providing technical or administrative orientation to the work of CEN and CENELEC;
- giving advice on how to deal with matters of standardization;
- collecting decisions of a CEN-CENELEC corporate body on specific general questions for future equal treatment of such questions;
- providing information or guidance on matters of conformity assessment in relation to the standardization activities of CEN and CENELEC.
Guides are approved by a corporate body by simple majority vote. Guides providing information or guidance on technical work shall be approved by the Technical Board, all other Guides by the General Assembly or Administrative Board.
Guides are made available in at least one of the official languages of CEN and CENELEC.