Registration - refreshments

Welcome Remarks - Statistics Netherlands

Opening Remarks & Meeting Agenda Overview – Voorburg Group co-chairs: Rohan Draper (Denmark) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)

Participant introductions – All

Network Break

Session: Sector and issues papers

• ISIC 829 - Business Support Service Activities Not Elsewhere Classifie
  Christian Puchter (Austria)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 1)

• Progress on quality adjusting office rents
  Yasufumi Genma (Japan)

Lunch break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 2)

• Approximations of deflators when SPPIs are not available: focus on approximations used by SPPI producers to supplement their surveys
  Murad Hajiyev  (Germany)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 3)

• Approximations of deflators when SPPIs are not available: focus on approximations used by SPPI producers to supplement their surveys.
  Dorothee Blang (Germany)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 4)

• Norway’s new double electronic survey for SPPI (collecting both turnover used for weights and prices in 2 steps)
  Trym Langballe (Norway)

Network break 

Session: Industry Paper ISIC 60 television broadcasting
Session leader / Discussant: Marcus Friden (Sweden)

• Output and Classification: television broadcasting vs streaming, significant classification changes
  Marcus Friden (Sweden)
• SPPI
  Jiri Sulc (Czech Republic) & Melanie Santiago (United States)

Group photo + cocktail reception

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 5 – Use of Alternative data in section G)
Session leader: Ulla Virtanen (Finland)

• Retail trade: practical experience in the use of corporate data (BLS) 
  Katie Frawley  (United States)
• The use of electronic invoicing data for the retail sector
  Mariagrazia Moschetta (Italia)
• The use of card transaction data in section G and I5610 and I5630 for turnover
  Trym Langballe (Norway)
• The use of bank card data in the services industries (wholesale and retail, accommodation and food services)
  Sam Sacco (Malta)

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 6)

• Potential revision of the Distributive Trade Statistics Guidelines 
  Markie Muryawan (UN)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 7)

• Trade in Service Deflator
  Rhys Humphries (UK)

Lunch break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 8)

• Update on measuring international trade in services volume
  David Brackfield (OECD)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 9)

• Reconstruction of time series for new ATECO industries (back casting)
  Annarita Mancini (Italy)
• Back casting from NACE Rev 2 to NACE Rev 2.1  
  Yoon Nakstad (Norway)

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 10)
Session leader: Mariagrazia Moschetta (Italia)

• Methods for adjusting the quarterly SPPI to the needs of the monthly ISP 
  Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
• How to use quarterly deflators to calculate monthly ISP
  Josipa Kalcic Ivanic (Croatia)
• SPPI application in the Index of Services Production
  Sam Sacco (Malta)

Host Presentation 1 

Host Presentation 2

Network break

Host Presentation 3

Host Presentation 4

Lunch & country day

TBD - Dinner reception

Bureau meeting – VG Bureau members only

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 11)
Session leader / Discussant: Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)

• SIC 77.4 Leasing of intellectual property –  (France)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 12)

• R&D and Intellectual property SPPI
  Yuka Kiho (Japan)

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 13)

• Usage of hourly-rate method for SPPI in labor intensive sectors and quality adjustment consideration
  Eylul Polat (Turkey) 

Session: Industry Paper
Session leader / discussant: Ariel Juarez Morales (Mexico)

• SPPI ISIC 7911 travel agency activities
  Maja Dozet (Croatia) & Eveli Sokman (Estonia) & Beata Cebula (Poland)

Lunch break

Session: Cross-cutting Topic (14)– Practical experience in using modern production systems. Poster session
Session leader: Rohan Draper (Denmark)

• Streamlining methods, pipelines and IT tooling for turnover statistics at Statistics
  Pelle Albers (Netherlands)
• Use of the piar R-package in calculating price indexes in Statistical production
  Xin Ha (Canada)
• TBD
  Edwin Boey (Singapore)

Network break

Group report out - poster session

Session: Cross-cutting Topic (15) –

• Using Gen AI to calculate price indexes 
  Xin Ha (Canada)

Bureau meeting - VG Bureau members only

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 16)
PPI Manual Update – IMF (Andrew Baer)

TBD

Network break

Session: 2026 meeting plan
Voorburg Group co-chairs: Rohan Draper (Denmark) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada) 

• VG Governance and Bureau Representation
• Future Agenda
• Assignment of Sector Papers
• Designation of Industries and Assignments for VG 2026
• Designation of Papers on Cross-cutting topics for VG 2026
• Conclude VG 2026 meeting plan
• Designation of Assignments for VG 2026
• Meeting Arrangements for Next Year
• Closing Remarks