institutionsmeans the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies established by or under the Treaties.
management of copyrightmeans 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;
mandatory publicationsmeans publications published pursuant to the Treaties or other legislative texts;
net receipts from salesmeans the total sum of invoices, minus trade discounts granted and management, collection and banking costs;
non-mandatory publicationsmeans any publications edited under the prerogatives of any institution;
publicationsmeans all texts, published on whatever medium and in whatever format, bearing an international standard number and/or a catalogue number;
publishingmeans 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;