The main goal of this project is to utilise the World Wide Web and emerging agent based technologies to provide a modular system of software which will enable providers of official statistics to publish their data in a unified framework, and to allow consumers of statistics to access these data in an informed manner with minimum effort. The project is progressing well within the proposed timeplan. Several deliverables have been completed: presentation material, initial technical implementation plan, public web site and the synthesised description of user needs. In addition, a private web site has been set up to aid communication within the consortium and procedures have been agreed for communication and peer reviewing. There have been three successful project meetings as well as a more technical oriented one. Further, there has been good progress, using the above-named procedures, in the formal specification of the system and in agreement on the architecture and system integration. Planning for the first test in February 2001 is now underway.