diff --git a/product/ERP5/Document/Document.py b/product/ERP5/Document/Document.py
index 7aa5be9dff90f67b8db4a716a3d5f5bf1cad4cf3..5c41655245dba8e843b00f1fb14fcaee08965865 100644
--- a/product/ERP5/Document/Document.py
+++ b/product/ERP5/Document/Document.py
@@ -129,30 +129,6 @@ class DocumentProxyError(Exception):pass
 class NotConvertedError(Exception):pass
 allow_class(NotConvertedError)
 
-class DocumentProxyMixin:
-  """
-  Provides access to documents referenced by the follow_up field
-  """
-  # Declarative security
-  security = ClassSecurityInfo()
-  security.declareObjectProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation)
-
-  security.declareProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation,'index_html')
-  def index_html(self, REQUEST, *args, **kw):
-    """ Only a proxy method """
-    return self.getProxiedDocument().index_html(REQUEST, *args, **kw)
-
-  security.declareProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation,
-                            'getProxiedDocument' )
-  def getProxiedDocument(self):
-    """
-    Try to retrieve the original document
-    """
-    proxied_document = self.getDocumentProxyValue()
-    if proxied_document is None:
-      raise DocumentProxyError("Unable to find a proxied document")
-    return proxied_document
-
 class UpdateMixIn:
   """
     Provides an API to compute a date index based on the update
@@ -206,7 +182,6 @@ class UpdateMixIn:
         fallback_script_id = 'Document_isUpdatable')
     return method()
 
-
 class Document(DocumentExtensibleTraversableMixIn, XMLObject, UrlMixIn, CachedConvertableMixin,
                SnapshotMixin, UpdateMixIn, TextConvertableMixin,
                DownloadableMixin, DocumentMixin):
diff --git a/product/ERP5/Document/EmailDocument.py b/product/ERP5/Document/EmailDocument.py
index 5a198ee7245133d84fa2426ae9ac2bfbb2d04ddd..6763dd2084bbe9abd62a896a83a5ee2e4efa9e2e 100644
--- a/product/ERP5/Document/EmailDocument.py
+++ b/product/ERP5/Document/EmailDocument.py
@@ -35,11 +35,10 @@ from Products.CMFCore.utils import _checkPermission
 from Products.ERP5Type import Permissions, PropertySheet
 from Products.ERP5.Document.TextDocument import TextDocument
 from Products.ERP5.Document.File import File
-from Products.ERP5.Document.Document import ConversionError, \
-  DocumentProxyMixin, DocumentProxyError
+from Products.ERP5.Document.Document import ConversionError
+from Products.ERP5.mixin.document_proxy import DocumentProxyMixin, DocumentProxyError
 from Products.ERP5.Tool.NotificationTool import buildEmailMessage
 from MethodObject import Method
-
 from zLOG import LOG, INFO
 
 try:
diff --git a/product/ERP5/interfaces/document_proxy.py b/product/ERP5/interfaces/document_proxy.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7da5dc20f9f23723cc9942d50fb0c947c5d888c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/product/ERP5/interfaces/document_proxy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nexedi SA and Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
+#                    Ivan Tyagov <ivan@nexedi.com>
+#
+# WARNING: This program as such is intended to be used by professional
+# programmers who take the whole responsability of assessing all potential
+# consequences resulting from its eventual inadequacies and bugs
+# End users who are looking for a ready-to-use solution with commercial
+# garantees and support are strongly adviced to contract a Free Software
+# Service Company
+#
+# This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+from zope.interface import Interface
+
+class ILegacyDocumentProxy(Interface):
+
+  def getProxiedDocument(self, **kw):
+    """
+    Get the proxied document
+    """
+
+class IDocumentProxy(ILegacyDocumentProxy):
+  """
+  Document Proxy interface specification
+
+  IDocumentProxy provides API to access to proxied documents of the current context.
+  """
+
+  def getProxiedDocumentValue(self, **kw):
+    """
+    Get the proxied document
+    """
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diff --git a/product/ERP5/mixin/document_proxy.py b/product/ERP5/mixin/document_proxy.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f147c5632e54d8e96793739babcb12772ae2ae04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/product/ERP5/mixin/document_proxy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nexedi SA and Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
+#                    Ivan Tyagov <ivan@nexedi.com>
+#
+# WARNING: This program as such is intended to be used by professional
+# programmers who take the whole responsability of assessing all potential
+# consequences resulting from its eventual inadequacies and bugs
+# End users who are looking for a ready-to-use solution with commercial
+# garantees and support are strongly adviced to contract a Free Software
+# Service Company
+#
+# This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+from AccessControl import ClassSecurityInfo
+from Products.ERP5Type import Permissions
+from warnings import warn
+
+class DocumentProxyError(Exception):pass
+
+class DocumentProxyMixin:
+  """
+  This class provides a generic implementation of IDocumentProxy and IDownloadable.
+  """
+
+  # Declarative security
+  security = ClassSecurityInfo()
+  security.declareObjectProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation)
+
+  security.declareProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation, 'index_html')
+  def index_html(self, REQUEST, *args, **kw):
+    """ Only a proxy method """
+    return self.getProxiedDocument().index_html(REQUEST, *args, **kw)
+
+  security.declareProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation, \
+                            'getProxiedDocument' )
+  def getProxiedDocument(self):
+    """
+    Try to retrieve the original document
+    """
+    warn("getProxiedDocument() function is deprecated. Use getProxiedDocumentValue() instead.", \
+          DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+    return self.getProxiedDocumentValue()
+
+  security.declareProtected(Permissions.AccessContentsInformation,
+                            'getProxiedDocument' )
+  def getProxiedDocumentValue(self):
+    """
+    Try to retrieve the original document
+    """
+    proxied_document = self.getDocumentProxyValue()
+    if proxied_document is None:
+      raise DocumentProxyError("Unable to find a proxied document")
+    return proxied_document
+ 
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