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European Regulations govern the delivery of Census data to Eurostat from member states, and in the past the UK Census Offices(ONS, GROS and NISRA collectively)were obliged to provide Eurostat with a specific set of tables.

New regulations will come into effect for the next Census that will require the National Statistics Institutes of member states to make their data available in data cubes as specified by Eurostat. Member states have contributed to the development of these specifications. Eurostat plans to build a web portal that can access data held by those member states who have web systems that are able to exchange data automatically with other websites, and are carrying out some pilot studies.