Article 23 Intellectual Property Rights Policy and Data Policy

The ESS ERIC shall where practicable seek to own the intellectual property rights in its work. It shall grant a royalty free non-exclusive licence over its intellectual property rights to any person for non-commercial purposes. In respect of use of the ESS ERIC’s intellectual property for commercial purposes this shall be handled on a case by case basis. Such policy may be further detailed by Standing Orders.

The ESS ERIC shall allow free access to all data of the European Social Survey by the scientific community. There shall be no privileged access rights by any person to such data except during its processing and preparation for public use. Such policy may be further detailed by Standing Orders.

The ESS ERIC shall subscribe to the Declaration on Ethics of the International Statistical Institute.

The ESS ERIC shall ensure so far as practicable that all data of the ESS ERIC is anonymised. To the extent that this is not possible then the principles of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data^f1 shall be applied.

All data generated by the ESS ERIC shall be handled in each relevant country according to the data protection laws of that country.

Such data policy may be further detailed by Standing Orders.