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Some county libraries offer online access to bsi standards free for library members from home, unfirtunately my area , Essex, dropped it a while ago.There is a list of those that still have it here https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/about-bsi/uk-national-standards-body/Library-Access-to-Standards/
Secondly, there is an inherent link between the legal nature of standards and their copyright protection. The ESOs enjoy copyright on standards as long as they are rules of self-regulation. But limiting the copyright over HTSs would be an obvious consequence of regarding the HTSs as part of EU law. This is because, as a general rule, the law cannot be copyrighted. This principle dates back to Roman times when public access to legal documents was made a key feature of law-based civilisation. Furthermore, the principle that laws should be accessible and free of charge to everyone is a basic standard of democracy.