Recital 37 Allowing for beta versions to be released

In order to ensure that manufacturersmeans a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge; can release softwaremeans the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; for testing purposes before subjecting their products with digital elementsmeans a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately; to conformity assessmentmeans the process of verifying whether the essential cybersecurity requirements set out in Annex I have been fulfilled;, Member States should not prevent the making available of unfinished softwaremeans the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code;, such as alpha versions, beta versions or release candidates, provided that the unfinished softwaremeans the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; is made available only for the time necessary to test it and gather feedback. Manufacturersmeans a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge; should ensure that softwaremeans the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; made available under those conditions is released only following a risk assessment and that it complies to the extent possible with the security requirements relating to the properties of products with digital elementsmeans a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately; laid down in this Regulation. Manufacturersmeans a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge; should also implement the vulnerabilitymeans a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of a product with digital elements that can be exploited by a cyber threat; handling requirements to the extent possible. Manufacturersmeans a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge; should not force users to upgrade to versions only released for testing purposes.