Publishers are responsible for assigning publication elements to the individual items they publish and for ensuring the application of pertinent regulations. They may apply for and receive a registrant element from a SNBVE registration agency together with a printout or electronic file of the individual SNBVEs that are available to them within the allocated registrant element.
The SNBVE registration agency will determine the range of publication elements that will be available to the publisher. The range assigned will be determined based on current and anticipated future publication output and is directly related to the length of the registrant element allocated. The publisher should ensure that the SNBVE registration agency has as much information as possible about all available backlist publications and should advise the agency of all present and future publications in order for the assignment of a suitably sized registrant element.
The publisher should supply the SNBVE registration agency with a specified amount of metadata about the publication to which the SNBVE is assigned. The specifications concerning the type and format of the metadata are established by the SNBVE. The specifications are available here.