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This CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) defines a technical/methodological framework for human-robot collaboration (HRC) systems that integrates planning, perception, and communication. Specifically, it provides guidelines for the design methodology and deployment actions to provide a user-aware approach to HRC cell that increases the adaptability and flexibility of HRC systems. This is a user-centric methodology to shape robot behaviour based on a single user's specific characteristics (e.g., age, skills, experience) and preferences (e.g., left-handed versus right-handed), implementing personalized robot behaviour that can better serve the human operator and increase the perception and acceptance of the technology. This CWA will not define requirements related to safety aspects. Furthermore, any consumer or user of CWA framework, architecture, and component source code should do their own formal integrated risk assessment and EU Machine Safety Directive compliance. Users should also be responsible for integrating and testing any CWA solution architecture, network latency, security, and open-source software code to ensure that it meets the specific application requirements of the users, and that any modifications made are the responsibility of the system, integrator, etc. This document is informative and is not aimed at substituting or simplifying production procedures required by standards. The objectives of this document are the following: - Define the design methodology and deployment actions needed to provide a user-aware approach to HRC that enhances the flexibility of HRC systems. - Present the user models and the knowledge-based formalism to represent users and production information. - Explain how the framework embeds user-awareness, with a particular focus on the planning and communication modules. - Present an example of the integration of the framework into a manufacturing scenario.