Terms of Reference For EEG6/WG4 – Raw Data Reporting

Status of this document

This is a working draft of Terms of Reference for EEG6/WG4. It was reviewed and discussed by its members at the EEG6/WG4 meetingin Eltville before being presented to the EEG6 group for approval.

Delegated authority

WG4 is a sub-committee of EBES Expert Group 6 (EEG6). It works on behalf of EEG6 on matters related to the standardisation of electronic raw data reporting.

Before submission and dissemination to other EDI standardisation bodies or other structures of EBES, standards produced by the group must be agreed by EEG6.

Membership

Every interested member of EEG6 is invited to participate. Experts may also be invited for specific topics.

Activities and responsibilities

The scope of WG4’s involvement in raw data reporting covers standardisation in:

· Generation of electronic raw data reports within the provider’s IT system.

· Transmission of electronic raw data reports.

· Receipt and integration of electronic raw data reports within the collector’s IT system.

· Additional issues, like for example the provision of feedback (acknowledgement, statistical data, …).

The activities of WG4 are:

· Analysing needs for new standards, or changes to existing standards, relating to raw data reporting.

· Proposing new standards, or changes to existing standards, via official standardisation procedures.

· Promoting standards for electronic raw data reporting.

This embraces work on existing message formats (e.g. EDIFACT RDRMES), new data models and formats (e.g. XML, Object Management), electronic questionnaire design (e.g. XForms), extraction of data from existing sources (e.g. XBRL), and so on. It will also require close co-operation with the relevant expert and standardisation groups (e.g. CoRD, ebXML, OMG).

WG4 establishes and maintains a work programme describing the concrete activities to be undertaken.

Working procedures

For the working procedures of WG4 please refer to EEG6 Terms of Reference.

Review

The continuing need for the working group should be reviewed by itself every two years or sooner if necessary and a recommendation should be made to the EEG6 on whether to continue with it or not.