# 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), Article 2: Tasks and activities

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The principal object and task of the ESS ERIC shall be to establish and operate a research infrastructure with the following main objectives:
(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;
(b) providing free and timely access to its accumulated data to professional users and members of the public;
(c) furthering the advancement of methods of quantitative social measurements and analysis in Europe and beyond.
2. 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/700/annex/I/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-700/annex-I/article-2
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