The European Medicines Agency has recently upgraded its EudraGMP database with information on good distribution practice (GDP) in addition to good manufacturing practice (GMP).

Since its launch in October 2008, the online information database embryotox.de that provides information related to the risks of using medicines during pregnancy and breastfeeding, reached over a million visits.

Following the launch of a pilot referral model on 1 October 2011, an online database of health institutions of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia enables doctors to check the health services offered in the establishments listed and to refer their patients to relevant specialists and hospitals.

The Federal Public Service (FPS) Social Security, in collaboration with FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue and the Information and Social Research Service, carried out tests on the effectiveness of a new tool for the detection of social security fraud.

Around 60 000 users of Norway's national database for public procurement (Doffin) were consulted during May 2011 on how to improve it, in anticipation of an upgraded version starting on 1 January 2013.

A major multi-national research databank on population ageing will be the first ever research infrastructure project to benefit from a new European legal status that will make such projects easier to set up and simpler to run, the European Commission decided on 17 March 2011.