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.