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Standards Production

In 2016 we published over 2 700 standards, specifications, The number of deliverables published,
reports and guides, bringing the total published since our for each of the years 1992 – 2016
establishment in 1988 to over 41 000.
1992 185
The number of documents published in 2016 is significantly
higher than in 2015. This was due mainly to two factors: the 1993 175
numerous new and revised Harmonised Standards which 1994 273
we produced to support the introduction of the Radio
Equipment Directive, and the freeze-point of the Third 1995 544
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP™) Release 13, in 1996 760
December 2015, as a result of which more than 900 drafts 1997 637
were received by our Secretariat at the end of 2015 for
processing at the beginning of 2016. 1998 869
1999 897
Intellectual Property Rights 2000 1 725
Our Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy is highly regarded 2001 2 172
around the world. We work constantly to improve it, 2002 2 472
consulting widely with our members, the European Patent 2003 1 812
Office (EPO), the EC, the United States Government and
relevant partner organisations, to meet the needs of our 2004 1 394
members, public authorities and the ICT industry in general. 2005 2 317
2006 1 640
In 2016 our IPR Special Committee continued to focus on
ways to increase the transparency of patent declarations 2007 1 939
and the information we provide to members and the public, 2008 1 463
particularly the transparency of the declaration process and
the information available in the ETSI IPR online database. 2009 2 480
Our legal department undertook a review of the database 2010 3 024
and made modifications to improve its accuracy. We began 2011 3 007
identifying and mapping the standardisation process to
patents activities. 2012 2 716
2013 2 031
Throughout the year, we contributed the views and 2014 2 331
represented the interests of the standardisation community
on patents, standards and the interplay between them at 2015 1 592
conferences and workshops worldwide. 2016 2 763

250 500 750 1 000 1 250 1 500 1 750 2 000 2 250 2 500 2 750 3 000 3 250
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Distribution by type of published document
in 2016 Total since 1988

Technical Specification (TS) 1 2 312 31 820
Technical Report (TR) 2 243 3 391

ETSI Standard (ES) 13 769
European Standard (telecommunications series) (EN) 148 4 826
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ETSI Guide (EG) 5 251

Special Report (SR) 9 96
Group Specification (GS) 31 132
Group Report (GR) 2 2

TOTAL 2 763 41 287

1 Includes GSM™ Technical Specification (GTS)
2 Includes old deliverable types: Technical Committee Reference Technical Report (TCR-TR), Technical Committee Technical Report (TC-TR) and
ETSI Technical Report (ETR)
3 Includes amendments and old deliverable types: European Telecommunication Standard (ETS), Interim ETS (I-ETS) and Technical Basis for
Regulation (TBR)

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