Article 3(1)
1. Promoting or undertaking scientific research.
2. Promoting or undertaking inquiry as to materials and equipment and as to methods of production, management and labour utilisation, including the discovery and development of new materials, equipment and methods and of improvements in those already in use, the assessment of the advantages of different alternatives, and the conduct of experimental establishments and of tests on a commercial scale.
3. Promoting or undertaking the collection and formulation of statistics.
4. Undertaking arrangements for making available informations obtained, and for advising on matters with which the Council are concerned in the exercise of any of their functions.
5. Promoting or undertaking arrangements for better acquainting the public in the United Kingdom, in relation to technical matters, with the products of the industry and methods of using them.