Consolidated norm

A consolidated standard is a version of a standard in which all changes are incorporated and marked as such. In the case of legal norms , the designation is the consolidated version .

In general, standards are updated to reflect the state of the art , and laws and other legal sources are amended .

In the case of technical standards, the standard is given a new date of issue, and the previous standard with the same number is withdrawn when the new edition is published. In the new edition of the standard, the changes are usually briefly referred to in the preface. There are also amendment sheets for standards. In these amendment sheets, minor errors (e.g. incorrect graphic representations, formulas or spelling errors) in a standard are corrected without completely republishing the standard.

These changes and corrections are included in a consolidated edition of a standard ( consolidated standard ) and marked as such. Especially with legal standards, this approach is critical because only the one in the Official Journal ( Gazette ) published version authentic is so binding legal effect. However, this consists of the original version (the first pronouncement) and the - possibly numerous - novellas. The consolidated (updated) version is used in everyday legal practice and is published by legal publishers, sometimes also by legal givers themselves, for example in the form of exchangeable ring binder sheets or in legal commentaries that are published again and again , today mostly electronically in legal information systems .

Examples:

• EN 50164-2: 2002 + A1: 2006: Lightning protection components - Part 2: Requirements for cables and earth electrodes - German version of the second part of EN 50164-2 with the year of issue 2002 with incorporated amendment A1, year of issue 2006

  For example, Beuth-Verlag does this for DIN standards and the German adoption of international standards, and for Austria, Austrian Standards International  (ASI, formerly Austrian Standards Institute).

• In Switzerland, the Official Collection  (AS) and the Systematic Collection  (SR) of federal law have been published in parallel by the legislature: the former is legally binding, the latter updated, but only informative (and sorted differently).
  In the legal information system of the Republic of Austria  (RIS), the legal service of the Federal Chancellery publishes the Federal Law Gazette authentically and consolidates federal law , and accordingly also the state law.

  A special feature is that in Austria since 2004 the electronically published version has been the authentic one, not the printed legal gazette. This has been the case in Switzerland since 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Collection and Systematic Collection , both admin.ch.
2. ↑ Federal Law Gazette authentic and federal law consolidated , search masks, both ris.bka.gv.at.