“In that context, the Advocate General concludes that the rule of law requires access to HTS that is freely available without charge.”
Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know asked the Commission for four toy-safety standards from CEN and got refused on copyright grounds. Every member state must adopt these standards unchanged as national standards, and following them gives a legal presumption of conformity. That makes them law, and the Advocate General says you can’t sell the law back to the people bound by it. Standards bodies built a business on charging for rules nobody can opt out of.