Task: Instance Description Understanding (ontology: Legal/ELI)

Which of the following definitions best describes the instance 'authoritative'?

A. Document has no particular or special standing.
B. The publisher gives some special status to the publication of the document. ("The Queens Printer" version of a UK Act of Parliament). This status is specific to UK where no text can be considered « definitive ».
C. Document for which the text is conclusively what the law says. (The digitally signed version of an Official Journal.)
D. Document is published by an organisation with the public task of making the information available (A consolidated version of a EU directive published by EU Publications Office.)

Answer: The publisher gives some special status to the publication of the document. ("The Queens Printer" version of a UK Act of Parliament). This status is specific to UK where no text can be considered « definitive ».