Recital 37 Allowing for beta versions to be released

In order to ensure that 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; can release software means the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; for testing purposes before subjecting 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; to conformity assessment means 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 software means 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 software means 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. 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; should ensure that software means the part of an electronic information system which consists of computer code; made available under those conditions is released only following a risk means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; assessment and that it complies to the extent possible with the security requirements relating to the properties of 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; laid down in this Regulation. 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; should also implement the vulnerability means 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. 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; should not force users to upgrade to versions only released for testing purposes.