Contract number: ECHA/2020/724  Restricted  Service contract conditions of December 2018  II.12.2   Any right or obligation assigned by the contractor without authorisation is not  enforceable against the contracting authority.  The contracting authority acquires irrevocably worldwide ownership of the  results and of all  intellectual property rights on the newly created materials produced specifically for the contracting authority under the contract and incorporated in the  results , without prejudice  however to the rules applying to  pre-existing rights on  pre-existing materials , as per Article  II.13.2. The intellectual property rights so acquired include any rights, such as copyright and other  intellectual or industrial property rights, to any of the  results  and in all technological solutions  and information created or produced by the contractor or by its subcontractor in  in performance  of the contract . The contracting authority may exploit and use the acquired rights as stipulated  in this contract. The contracting authority acquires all the rights as from the moment the  contractor has created the  results . The payment of the price includes any fees payable to the contractor about the acquisition of  ownership of rights by the contracting authority including for all modes of exploitation and of  use of the  results .  Unless provided otherwise in the special conditions, the contracting authority does not acquire  ownership of  pre-existing rights  under this contract. The contractor licenses the   on a royalty-free, non-exclusive and irrevocable  basis to the contracting authority, which may use the  pre-existing materials  for all the modes of  exploitation set out in this contract. Unless otherwise agreed, the licence is non-transferable and  cannot be sub-licensed, except as provided hereafter:  (a) the  pre-existing rights can be sub-licensed by the contracting authority to persons and  entities working for it or cooperating with it, including contractors and subcontractors, whether  legal or natural persons, but only for the purpose of their mission for the contracting authority; (b) if the  result  is a "document" such as a report or a study, and it is meant to be published, the  existence of  pre-existing materials  in the  result  may not prevent the publication of the document,  its translation or its "reuse", it being understood however that the "reuse" may only be made of  the  result  as a whole and not of the  pre-existing materials  taken separately from the  result ; for  the sake of this provision, "reuse" and "document" have the meaning given by the Commission  Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (2011/833/EU).  All  pre-existing rights  are licensed to the contracting authority from the moment the  results  are  delivered and approved by the contracting authority. The licensing of  pre-existing rights  to the contracting authority under this contract covers all  territories worldwide and is valid for the duration of intellectual property rights protection.  The payment of the price as set out in this contract is deemed to also include any fees payable  to the contractor in relation to the licensing of  pre-existing rights  to the contracting authority,  including for all forms of exploitation and of use of the  results .  Where  implementation of the contract  requires that the contractor uses  pre-existing materials belonging to the contracting authority, the contracting authority may request that the contractor  signs an adequate licence agreement. Such use by the contractor will not entail any transfer of  rights to the contractor and is limited to the needs of this contract.  The contracting authority acquires the following exclusive rights: II.13.3. Exclusive rights  II.13.2. Licensing rights on pre-existing materials  II.13. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS  II.13.1. Ownership of the rights in the results  20 