根据CEN-CENELEC指南8“标准化和知识产权（IPR）”的规定，CEN和CENELEC已制定了多年的知识产权政策；这些共同准则的目的是在发生专利或其他知识产权事项时，简单地向其技术机构的参与者提供实际指导。为了清楚起见，本文件提及“专利”，作为欧洲标准化委员会和欧洲标准化委员会技术机构必须处理的大多数但不是全部知识产权问题。但是，同样的实施原则应适用于基于可能产生的发明的其他法定知识产权，例如实用新型或注册半导体拓扑图（见第2条，术语和定义）。考虑到技术专家通常不熟悉专利法的复杂问题，由CEN和CENELEC认可的ISO\/IEC\/ITU共同专利政策（以下简称“专利政策”）在其执行部分作为一个清单起草，涵盖了在交付需要许可证时可能出现的三种不同情况全部或部分实施或实施的专利。本《欧洲标准化委员会和欧洲电工标准化委员会专利共同政策实施指南》（以下简称“指南”）旨在补充、澄清和促进专利政策的实施，其副本可在附件1和两个组织的网站上找到。CEN和CENELEC专利政策要求参与技术委员会的利益相关者，特别是专利持有人，尽早披露和确定专利，据他们所知，这些专利可能对未来使用正在开发的可交付成果至关重要。这样做可以提高标准制定的效率，避免潜在的专利权问题。CEN和CENELEC不参与评估与可交付成果有关的专利相关性或重要性，也不参与许可谈判，或参与解决专利纠纷。这是留给有关各方的。

CEN and CENELEC have had an intellectual property rights (IPR) policy for many years under the provision of the CEN-CENELEC Guide 8 "Standardization and intellectual property rights (IPR)"; the purpose of these common guidelines is to provide in simple words practical guidance to the participants in their technical bodies in case patent or other intellectual property rights matters arise. For the sake of clarity this document refers to "patents", as most - but not all - IPR issues that CEN and CENELEC technical bodies have to deal with concern patent rights. However, the same implementation principles shall apply to other statutory intellectual property rights based on inventions that may arise, such as utility models or registered semiconductor topographies (see Clause 2, Terms and definitions). Considering that technical experts are not normally familiar with the complex issue of patent law, the Common Patent Policy for ISO/IEC/ITU endorsed by CEN and CENELEC (hereafter referred to as the "Patent Policy") was drafted in its operative part as a checklist covering the three different cases which may arise if a deliverable requires licences for patents to be practiced or implemented, fully or partly. These Guidelines for Implementation of the Common Policy on Patents for CEN and CENELEC (hereafter referred to as the "Guidelines") are intended to complement, clarify and facilitate the implementation of the Patent Policy, a copy of which can be found in Annex 1 and also on the websites of both organisations. The CEN and CENELEC Patent Policy requests stakeholders participating in technical Committees, and in particular patent holders, to proceed to early disclosures and identification of patents that may be considered, at the best of their knowledge, to be essential for the future use of the deliverables under development. In doing so, greater efficiency in standards development is possible and potential patent rights problems can be avoided. CEN and CENELEC are not involved in evaluating patent relevance or essentiality with regard to deliverables, nor to interfere with licensing negotiations, or engage in settling disputes on patents. This is left to the parties concerned.