Article 2 Tasks and activities
United Kingdom
The principal object and task of the ESS ERIC shall be to establish and operate a research infrastructure with the following main objectives:
assembling, interpreting and disseminating via the European Social Survey or otherwise rigorous data on Europe’s social condition, including the shifting attitudes, values, perceptions and behaviour patterns among citizens in different countries;
providing free and timely access to its accumulated data to professional users and members of the public;
furthering the advancement of methods of quantitative social measurements and analysis in Europe and beyond.
The ESS ERIC shall pursue its principal object and task on a non-economic basis. However, it may carry out limited economic activities, provided that they are closely related to its principal task and that they do not jeopardise the achievement thereof.