ANNEX IIISupplementary provisions
ANNEX III DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 1. In these Statutes, unless the context requires otherwise ‘ESS ERIC’ means the European research infrastructure consortium established under Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 (the ‘Regulation’) and governed by these Statutes as they may be amended or restated when necessary in accordance with the Regulation (the ‘Statutes’); ‘ESS’ or ‘European Social Survey’ means the European Social Survey which commenced in 2001, is an authoritative long term survey carried out by simultaneous national surveys in European countries. It collects, interprets and disseminates rigorous data on changing social attitudes and values across Europe; ‘GDP’ means the total monetary value of all goods and services produced domestically by a country as determined from figures issued by the World Bank for 2009 or such subsequent year as may be approved by the General Assembly; ‘Member’ means any person (acting through their National Representative) who has been admitted to membership of the ESS ERIC when necessary in accordance with these Statutes and the Regulation; ‘Member State’ means a member country of the European Union; ‘Standing Orders’ means standing orders of the ESS ERIC as approved by the General Assembly when necessary. 2. Unless otherwise set out in these Statutes, terms defined in the Regulations have the same meaning here; 3. References to the Articles are to the Articles of these Statutes; 4. All headings are for ease of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of the Statutes, unless the context otherwise requires; 5. References to the singular include the plural and vice versa and references to any gender include every gender; 6. References to any treaty, regulation, directive, statute or statutory provision shall include any subordinate legislation made under it and shall be construed as references to such treaty, regulation, directive, statute, statutory provision and/or subordinate legislation as modified, amended, extended, consolidated, re-enacted and/or replaced and in force as at the date of the Statutes; 7. Any words following the words ‘include’, ‘includes’, ‘including’, ‘in particular’ or any similar words or expressions shall be construed without limitation and accordingly shall not limit the meaning of the words preceding them; 8. References to ‘in writing’ or ‘written’ are to communication effected by post and facsimile and e-mail or any other means of reproducing words in a legible and non-transitory form; 9. Any reference to any English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, official or any legal concept or thing shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than that of England and Wales, be deemed to include a reference to what most nearly approximates to the English legal term in that jurisdiction.