In December 2012 the National Statistical Institute started the project "Horizontal and vertical integration: Implementing of technical and statistical standards in the European Statistical System" according to a Grant agreement 60502.2012.003-2012.098 of the European Commission.

The main objectives of the project are implementation and promotion of the SDMX technical and statistical standard for exchange of statistical data and metadata in the national statistical practice, and achieving of vertical integration between the National Statistical System and the European Statistical System.

The project duration is 24 months (December 2012 - November 2014) and NSI will implement the following activities:

- Implementation of ESS metadata standards and elaboration of national reference database.

- Development of Dissemination database (DDB) in accordance with SDMX 2.1. technical standard.

- Implementation of SDMX-RI reference infrastructure and related IT software tools.