1. Slide 1 Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technology IT Directors Group 24 – 25 October 2005 OSS XML for Data Interoperability in Statistics

2. Slide 2 Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technology IT Directors Group 24 – 25 October 2005 DG Enterprises and Industry has presented the draft of a European Union Public License (EUPL, basically a GPL translated into European legal terms This license is still in the negotiation process; afterwards, CIRCA shall be published under this license Eurostat intends to publish GENEDI under this license, as well as tools developed in X-DIS The CIRCA IG “OSS and Statistics” is updated from time to time. More work will be done in this field when the X-DIS project has started Latest developments

3. Slide 3 Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technology IT Directors Group 24 – 25 October 2005 to take OSS into account not only as users, but as well as developers; to take note of the EUPL, to comment on it, and to consider it for their own developments to regularly visit the CIRCA interest group “OSS and Statistics” and to contribute to it. ITDG Members are invited: