# Policies

### Defining policies

> - How can a Service Provider create policies that concern the Products that they offer ?
> - How can a Marketplace Operator create policites that concern the Products that they host ?

#### Local policies

> That only the federated marketplace needs to enforce locally.

#### Distributed policies

> That everyone in the federation needs to enforce.

### Enforcing policies

#### In front of TMForum API

> i.e. marketplace -to- Access Node PEP, PDP - when are they needed and when not ?

#### In front of Context Broker API

> i.e. Access Node -to- Access Node

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