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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-272/annex/division-7",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/272",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/272 of 20 February 2018 on setting up the European Marine Biological Resource Centre — European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMBRC-ERIC) (notified under document C(2018) 826) (Only the Dutch, English, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-272",
  "path": "annex/division/7",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Access Policy, Data Policy and Dissemination",
  "text": "(Article 22 of the Statutes of EMBRC-ERIC)\n1.. The EMBRC-ERIC policies for access, data and dissemination on how EMBRC-ERIC provides access to portfolio of services and research platforms, marine ecosystems, biological resources, E-infrastructure shall be submitted for approval by the Executive Director to the General Assembly.\n2.. Access to EMBRC-ERIC shall be open to all types of users, including from all European and non-European countries, not necessarily for free. Requests will undergo a streamlined process involving eligibility and feasibility checks. The EMBRC-ERIC technical and scientific description provides further details regarding the conditions for users' access.\n3.. Access will be monitored and user satisfaction measured with a feedback mechanism as part of quality assurance for continuous improvement of access and services.\n4.. EMBRC-ERIC will promote E-infrastructure interoperability and standardization in order to deal with large volumes of different types of generated data, and develop or adopt community endorsed data handling protocols, tools and expertise.\n5.. EMBRC-ERIC will promote open source and open access principles for data and will foster knowledge transfer and the dissemination of data and information by liaising with existing European initiatives of relevance for environmental and biological data and bioinformatics, such as ELIXIR and Lifewatch ERIC, and recognized data repositories such as EurOBIS, Emodnet, PANGAEA, GEOSS and COPERNICUS.\n6.. The EMBRC-ERIC Access Policy, Data Policy and Dissemination Policy shall be adopted by the General Assembly in accordance with Article 15(10) of the Statutes and appended to the Rules of Operation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/272/annex/division/7",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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