Article 12 Dissemination and Use of the SHARE Data

The SHARE-ERIC shall disseminate the collected data after data cleaning, imputation, and documentation and after taking account of international and national privacy laws, without delay to the scientific community.

Use of the SHARE data shall be free of charge to the entire scientific community. The Management Board shall set up a Users’ Council representing the interest of the scientific user community taking into account the advice of the Scientific Monitoring Board.

Use and collection of the SHARE data is subject to European and national laws of data privacy. Use of the SHARE data by users who are not subject to EU legislation shall be conditional on signing a declaration of data confidentiality according to the form provided by the European Commission (OJ L 6, 10.1.2002, p. 52).