Contract no: [complete]  EC - FWC services Dec 2018  II.13.2. Licensing rights on pre-existing materials  Unless provided otherwise in the special conditions, the Union does not acquire ownership of  pre- existing rights  under this FWC. The contractor licenses the  pre-existing rights  on a royalty-free, non-exclusive and irrevocable basis to  the Union, which may use the  pre-existing materials  for all the modes of exploitation set out in this FWC  or in  specific contracts . Unless otherwise agreed, the licence is non-transferable and cannot be sub- licensed, except as provided hereafter:  All  pre-existing rights  are licensed to the Union from the moment the  results  are delivered and approved  by the contracting authority. The licensing of  pre-existing rights  to the Union under this FWC covers all territories worldwide and is  valid for the duration of intellectual property rights protection.  The payment of the price as set out in the  specific contracts  is deemed to also include any fees payable  to the contractor in relation to the licensing of  pre-existing rights  to the Union, including for all forms of  exploitation and of use of the  results .  Where  implementation of the FWC  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 FWC.  The Union acquires the following exclusive rights: 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 Union;  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).  a) reproduction: the right to authorise or prohibit direct or indirect, temporary or permanent  reproduction of the  results  by any means (mechanical, digital or other) and in any form, in whole  or in part; b)  communication to the public: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any display, performance  or communication to the public, by wire or wireless means, including the making available to the  public of the  results  in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place  and at a time individually chosen by them; this also includes the communication on Internet and  broadcasting by cable or by satellite;  c)  distribution: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any form of distribution of  results  or copies  of the  results  to the public, by sale or otherwise;  d) rental: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit rental or lending of the  results  or of copies of  the  results ;  e) adaptation: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any modification of the  results ; f)  translation: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any translation, adaptation, arrangement,  creation of derivative works based on the  results , and any other alteration of the  results , subject  to the respect of moral rights of authors, where applicable;  22 II.13.3. Exclusive rights