The EAU Guidelines Office has been overseeing the production of guidelines and clinical practice recommendations for a number of years now. At the outset of this project it was stated that the purpose of these texts is not to be proscriptive in the way a clinician should treat a patient, but rather to provide access to the best contemporaneous consensus view on the most appropriate management currently available. This still applies and the EAU guidelines are not meant to be law texts but are produced with the ultimate aim to help urologists with their day-to-day practice.

The EAU have adopted a Conflict of Interest Policy for the purpose of providing guidance and avoiding conflicts of interest within the association.  

While the conflict of interest policy is binding to all members of the organization including the members of the Board and the Executive Committee members; their service on behalf of the organization may result in situations involving a duality of interest which might be interpreted as conflict of interest.  

In order to avoid any perception of such duality of interest, in particular in relation to the role of those involved in procuring association funding, the Executive Committee of the EAU, explicitly state that those officers are neither involved in the production, nor in the peer review of the EAU guidelines. 

The EAU Executive Committee consists of a secretary-general, two adjunct secretary generals and a treasurer. The EAU Board at large consists of 17 members.

Guidelines Office Board and Panels
Production of the guidelines is overseen by the Guidelines Office Board.
The work is carried out by renowned experts who take part in a number of Members EAU Guidelines Office Panels.
Where possible, the principles of evidence-based medicine are used, but in other circumstances, the recommendations reflect the consensus opinion of our expert panels where we feel that this is the best evidence available.
Currently the corpus of texts covers the entire spectrum of the urological field.

Download the EAU Guidelines
The EAU Urological Guidelines are a free EAU membership benefit. They are available both electronically in various formats and in print (as full text prints as well as ultrashort "pocket" versions). Click here to download the Guidelines.

Download the EAUN Guidelines
The EAUN Good Practice in Health Care booklets (guidelines) are a free EAUN membership benefit. They are available both electronically in various formats and in print. Click here to download the EAUN Good Practice in Health Care booklets (guidelines).

Order the EAU guidelines
All members that have not collected their copy of the guidelines at the Annual Meeting will receive a copy of the ultrashort version of the guidelines by mail. The large book print can be ordered by the EAU members free of charge - only postage charges of EUR 14 apply. Any requests may be sent to Guidelines(at)remove-this.uroweb.org.

Non-EAU members may place an order through our Online Order Form or via e-mail 
Guidelines: EUR 90
Pocket guidelines: EUR 20
CD-Rom: EUR 45

Disclaimer
By downloading any document from the EAU website you implicitly accept the EAU disclaimer.

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General  (For national societies requests, see below)
The content of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines and all products derived from such material is made available for personal and educational use only. No commercial usage is authorized. No part of the EAU Guidelines and any related products may be translated or reproduced in any form without written permission from the EAU.

The EAU Guidelines material can be: viewed, printed or downloaded for individual use (1 copy per person) and linked to from external websites or online media.

The EAU does not allow for the insertion of their Guidelines and any other material based on these texts (full or partial) in external websites, pages, portals or servers, unless specific exceptional permission has been granted for such.

National (urological) society’s translation and republication requests
The EAU welcome requests from national urological societies to translate and reprint their guidelines and related material. For this purpose a written request is to be sent to the chairman of the EAU Guidelines Office, Mr. K.P. Parsons, email: guidelines(at)remove-this.uroweb.org.

Copyright will be transferred, for once-only translation and republication of all texts in case these are made available to the national urologists free of charge. Permission will, however, also rely on the explicit condition that no commercial involvement can be linked to such a reprint. Funding such a republication through the inclusion of commercial advertisement or financial support otherwise generated through a commercial third party (industry, publishing house etc.) is not allowed.

Any commercial involvement linked to EAU guidelines republication will result in withholding permission.

Furthermore, the EAU will not assume any responsibility for the correctness of the translations which are the sole responsibility of the national society in question. Proper reference to the source material is to be ensured, also in case guidelines texts, or their derivative products, are adapted to specific requirements related to medical practices and the national healthcare system of the country in question.

By transferring copyright for such a translation and republication the EAU will not accept any financial claims related to the work involved.

Commercial reprints
The EAU offers companies the opportunity to order reprints of original material. This may concern single guidelines topics or the full corpus of guidelines texts. In that case logistics and printing will be handled by the EAU central office. Please note that this may prove costly in case of a small print-run.

Reprints of guidelines material published in European Urology are also governed by EAU Copyright, no part of these guidelines texts and any related products may be translated or reproduced in any form without written permission from the EAU. English language reprints of the texts may be requested directly from the publisher: http://www.elsmediakits.com/reprints.php. Translations of these papers are prohibited, only national associations can apply for permission to do so through the EAU Guidelines Office.