Statutes of Instruct-ERIC
Instruct has the legal form ERIC. ERIC stands for European Research Infrastructure Consortium, and refers to a specific legal form that facilitates the establishment and operation of Research Infrastructures with European interest, on a not for profit basis. ERICs are funded by subscription from member countries and governed by member country representatives. For more information on ERICs, please consult the EU ERIC regulation.
The basic internal structure of an ERIC is flexible and defined in its statutes by its Members. The Instruct-ERIC statutes are a legal document containing the internal principles and rights and obligations within Instruct-ERIC.
Related to the statutes, an implementing decision (in relation to ERICs) is a legally binding act of the European Commission which sets up the ERIC or amends critical parts of the ERIC statutes referred to as "essential elements" (the articles 2, 3, 4, 17, 21, 24(1), 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 are essential elements in the Instruct-ERIC statutes). Each implementing decision includes the essential elements of the statutes of the ERIC as its annex. Note that these essential elements are not the full statutes. Some other elements (deemed non-essential by the ERIC regulation) and any annexes of the statutes themselves are omitted.
The full statutes of an ERIC must be publicly available on the website of the ERIC and at its statutory seat. The current Instruct-ERIC statutes are available from this page, alongside all historic versions and their respective dates of applicability.
Current Instruct-ERIC statutes
Instruct-ERIC Statutes 04 June 2024
