Recital 21 Facilitation of due diligence of free and open-source software

In order to support and facilitate the due diligence of manufacturers means 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; that integrate free and open-source software means software the source code of which is openly shared and which is made available under a free and open-source licence which provides for all rights to make it freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable; components means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system; that are not subject to the essential cybersecurity means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; requirements set out in this Regulation into their products with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;, the Commission should be able to establish voluntary security attestation programmes, either by a delegated act supplementing this Regulation or by requesting a European cybersecurity means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; certification scheme pursuant to Article 48 of Regulation (EU) 2019/881 that takes into account the specificities of the free and open-source software means software the source code of which is openly shared and which is made available under a free and open-source licence which provides for all rights to make it freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable; development models. The security attestation programmes should be conceived in such a way that not only natural or legal persons developing or contributing to the development of a product with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately; qualifying as free and open-source software means software the source code of which is openly shared and which is made available under a free and open-source licence which provides for all rights to make it freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable; can initiate or finance a security attestation but also third parties, such as manufacturers means 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; that integrate such products into their own products with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;, users, or Union and national public administrations.