Article 1 Establishment, Name and Statutory Seat

There shall be a distributed European Research Infrastructure called ‘the Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium’, hereinafter referred to as ‘CERIC-ERIC’.

CERIC-ERIC shall have its Statutory Seat in Trieste, Italy. The General Assembly shall consider every five years whether the Statutory Seat shall remain in the same country or be transferred to the territory of another Member. The Member where the Statutory Seat is located shall ensure through a Representing Entity, as set out in Article 2, the resources for the common central operational activities of CERIC-ERIC including any funding needed to this end, in accordance with Article 6.