The Ownership Group for SDMX implementation in Balance of Payments (BOP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and National Accounts (NA) is pleased to inform you that the comments received from the organisations that tested the DSDs have been taken into account, and that updated DSDs have been made available. The release fixes some mistakes detected by data providers in the V1.0 release of September 2013. In addition, some codes needed in the context of data cooperation between international organisations were added. MORE>>

New SDMX guidelines on the governance of commonly used SDMX metadata artefacts are made available by the SDMX Sponsors. These guidelines describe the SDMX governance model and the governance principles of the artefacts. They also deal with maintenance issues related to these artefacts. These guidelines are the basis when the SDMX standards are implemented in statistical domains. MORE>>

This is the current SDMX 2.1 Technical Specification. Minor errors and inconsistencies have been corrected in August 2011 and May 2012. These have been documented in the appropriate parts of specification. The Technical Notes and the Web services guidelines have also been amended in March and April 2013. MORE>>

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published SDMX as "International Standard" (IS) 17369 on 8 January 2013. MORE>>

Following a request from members of the SDMX community, the SDMX Technical Working Group has prepared an updated version of the SDMX web service guidelines that now offers guidelines on how to address typical security requirements. MORE>>