Article 1 Name, Seat and Working Language
United Kingdom
1.
There shall be a European Research Infrastructure Consortium called Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) hereinafter referred to as JIV-ERIC.
2.
JIV-ERIC shall be a research infrastructure active in the JIV-ERIC member countries, as well as in observer countries and other countries where JIV-ERIC has established agreements in accordance with Article 8(1) of the Statutes.
3.
JIV-ERIC shall have the legal form of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) incorporated under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 and be named ‘JIV-ERIC’.
4.
JIV-ERIC shall have its statutory seat in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.
5.
The working language of JIV-ERIC is English.