CIRCA or CDR?

28 countries have chosen CDR as the place for storing their data files:
Denmark, Sweden, Liechtenstein, Austria, Latvia, Czech Republic, Iceland, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, France, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland, Malta, Romania, Hungary, Luxembourg, Portugal, The Netherlands, Estonia, Finland and Slovakia (in order of arrival of the votes).

2 countries have decided to use their national CIRCA for this purpose:
Belgium and Italy.

Nearly all EEA member countries have now made their decision.
Turkey, that only very recently became a member country has to choose one of the proposed options.

*** New *** The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has decided to use CDR.

*** New *** The Netherlands have decided to use CDR.

Background

The systematic implementation of data repositories for EIONET priority data started on Friday, 21 June 2002 when a voting paper for the repository choice was sent to National Focal Points.

There are two options for the storage of national data:

• distributed national data repositories implemented in CIRCA and
• the Central Data Repository (CDR) at EEA.

The basic requirement is that every country and every regular data flow should use and clearly identify one of these repository options. It is not an option only to rely on email or similar. The deadline for replies was: Friday, 19 July 2002.