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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-166/annex/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/166",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 17 March 2011 setting up the SHARE-ERIC (2011/166/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-166",
  "path": "annex/division/1",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Republic of Austria\nThe Kingdom of Belgium\nThe Czech Republic\nThe Federal Republic of Germany\nThe Kingdom of the Netherlands\nHereinafter referred to as ‘the Contracting Parties’,\nDESIRING to further strengthen Europe’s and the Contracting Party countries’ position in research in the world, and to intensify scientific cooperation across disciplinary and national boundaries;\nCONSIDERING a report by the European Commission to the European Council of 2001(Council Document 6997/01) which identifies population ageing and its social and economic challenges to growth and prosperity to be among the most pressing challenges of the 21st century in Europe, which points out serious infrastructure gaps in understanding individual and population ageing, and which then calls to ‘examine the possibility of establishing, in cooperation with Member States, a European Longitudinal Ageing Survey’ in order to foster European research on ageing;\nBUILDING on the current prototype of a Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) which has been selected by the ESFRI roadmap process to be upgraded as one of the central research infrastructures of the European Research Area;\nRECOGNISING that this new interdisciplinary, international, and longitudinal survey with unprecedented quality regarding coherence, breadth and international comparability will in the future be of great significance in many different fields of fundamental and applied sciences such as demography, economics, epidemiology, gerontology, biology, medicine, psychology, public health, health policy, sociology and statistics;\nRECOGNISING that evidence-based public policy making requires an up-to-date data infrastructure;\nEXPECTING other countries to participate in the activities undertaken together under the following Statutes;\nHAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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