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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-700/annex-I/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/700",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 22 November 2013 on setting up the European Social Survey as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) (2013/700/EU)",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Tasks and activities",
  "text": "1. The principal object and task of the ESS ERIC shall be to establish and operate a research infrastructure with the following main objectives:\n(a) 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;\n(b) providing free and timely access to its accumulated data to professional users and members of the public;\n(c) furthering the advancement of methods of quantitative social measurements and analysis in Europe and beyond.\n2. 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.",
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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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