The document specifies rules for the structure and drafting of documents intended to become Standards, Technical Specifications or Publicly Available Specifications. Publicly Available Specifications do not exist in CEN/CENELEC. As far as practicable, these rules also apply to documents intended to become Technical Reports or Guides. All these document types are referred to collectively hereinafter as documents, unless otherwise necessary. This amentment introduces new European rules on the implementation of international and national documents on European level and on conformity assessment. Furthermore amendments to the nationale annex are introduced.