Terms and Conditions

Introduction

  • The EU Competencies Project presents a measure of European Union (EU) involvement in policy-making over time: an index of the Europeanisation of policy.
  • Using an internet survey targeting academic experts in individual EU policy areas, the EU Competencies Index dataset provides information on two areas: first, the distribution of authority between EU institutions and national authorities across time and across policy fields; and, secondly, an assessment of the ideological content of EU legislation.

Restrictions

  • Redistribution of the provided data is forbidden except when redistribution is authorized in writing by the EU Competencies Project. When sharing data or other materials in the approved way, you must include all accompanying files with the data, including Terms and Conditions.
  • You agree not to use the materials in any way prohibited by applicable law.
  • You agree to store the data and/or documents in a way that allows you to identify their provenance (the EU Competencies Project website).

Obligation to Quote

  • You agree to reference the recommended bibliographic citation in any publication (books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, working papers and other publications) that employs the provided resource. The recommended bibliographic citation is presented on the website of the EU Competencies Project.
  • You agree to send citations of published works that employs the provided resource to the Manifesto Project for inclusion in a database of related publications. This can be done via e-mail to eucompetencies@gmail.com or by contacting Dr Kyriaki Nanou directly.
  • You agree to send a digital or an analog copy of the published work that employs the provided resource to the EU Competencies Project team unless other legal commitments forbid you to do so. Please contact Dr Kyriaki Nanou.

Obligation to Inform

  • You will immediately notify the EU Competencies Project in writing of any unauthorized use of the data, or other data related security breaches of which you are aware.

Limitation of Liabiliy

  • You acknowledge that the EU Competencies Project bears no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
  • The EU Competencies Project makes no warranties, express or implied, by operation of Law or otherwise, regarding or relating to the dataset.

Mailing List and Privacy

  • By registering to the EU Competencies Project website, you agree to receive news and updates from the EU Competencies team via email. You can later opt out by clicking on the Unsubscribe button in the footer of the newsletter.
  • The EU Competencies Project website uses SSL authentication to protect user data. The EU Competencies team does everything it can to protect user data. All data provided by the users on this website is voluntarily given, and the user agrees for these to be used by the EU Competencies team. The EU Competencies team does not provide the data to third parties.
  • You can delete your account at any time, which will also remove your email address from the EU Competencies Project mailing list.
  • If you would like to get access to the datasets without registering on the EU Competencies Project website, please contact Dr Kyriaki Nanou.