Editorial policy
Who writes this, and who answers for it
This site states what EU law requires of a company. That is a claim a reader should be able to trace. Here is who is accountable for it, how a statement is made, where AI is used, and what happens when we are wrong.
The company is accountable, not an author
Everything here is published by StandardOS, the trading name of RMS Systems, registered in Denmark under CVR 34282668. No page carries a byline and there is no author profile, because the party that answers for a wrong sentence is the company rather than whoever typed it.
The registration number resolves in the Danish public register, and it is printed in full on the about page. That is what you would hold us to.
How a statement about the law is made
1. Read the act
The provision is read in the Official Journal, in the language it will be published in, never from somebody else's summary of it.
2. Write it in our own words
What the rule asks is described plainly. Where the act's own wording matters we quote it, mark it as a quotation, and cite the article it comes from.
3. Let the checks run
The quote has to match the act word for word, and the dates have to be dates the codebase holds. The wording has to survive every corrigendum and amendment published since we copied it.
4. Publish with the date we read it
The reading date travels with the statement, and it expires. A source nobody has looked at recently fails the build rather than sitting on the page looking current.
Where AI is used
Where AI is used
Most of this site is drafted with AI, and so are the checks that test it.
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That is worth saying plainly, and it is also why the checks exist. A model is fluent about law it has misread. Nothing here is published because it sounded right. It is published because a script compared it to the act and the two matched.
What we do not do
We do not publish articles generated on a schedule, and we do not invent authors or reviewers. We do not move a date on a page to make it look freshly checked. The reading dates are the days somebody read the source.
Corrections
A mistake is corrected in public. The change is dated and the earlier reading stays visible. A correction that came from our own error is marked as ours, not filed as a change in the law.
If something on this site is wrong, tell us which page and what it should say.
What we are paid by, and what we are not
What we are paid by, and what we are not
One price on the website, paid by the company using the product.
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We take no commission from certification bodies, auditors or consultants. We do not sell placement on any page that lists or compares them, and nothing here is a paid recommendation. The directory of certification bodies is alphabetical and never ranked, and a body cannot pay to be in it.
The part you have to take on trust, and the part you do not
Our contracts are a claim you cannot inspect.
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What you can inspect is that one product is sold at one published price. The comparison pages print what we do not do. And the rule against paying a certification body for referrals is enforced on every outgoing message by a check, not promised in a paragraph.
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