Just to add a little to what Patrik wrote. This concerns a proposal for a Regulation and not for a Directive. The essential difference is that a Directive has to be transposed into national law and so there is another local stage. A Regulation on the other hand is directly applicable: the adopted text will be the applicable law in each EU Member State. The Commission's proposed regulation is actually quite wide ranging - covering identification, signatures of various kinds, seals, time stamps, delivery services, website authentication and so on - and refers to a whole range of activities. My feeling is that a presentation / discussion in Dublin would be very useful for very many people. Maybe the co-chairs could try and get somebody from Brussels. Gordon