# 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 26: Applicable law

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

The setting-up and internal functioning of the ERIC shall be governed:
(a) by European Union law and in particular the Regulation and the decision of the European Commission to establish the ESS ERIC under these Statutes;
(b) by the law of the State where the ESS ERIC has its statutory seat in the case of matters not, or only partly, regulated by acts referred to in Article 26(a), i.e. the laws of England and Wales at the date of the establishment of the ESS ERIC;
(c) by these Statutes and their implementing rules.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/700/annex/I/article/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-700/annex-I/article-26
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