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 Classified
Christian Puchter (Austria)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 1)
Progress on quality adjusting office rents
Yuka Kiho (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
Dorothee Blang (Germany)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 3)
How to reassign products classified in the "other" category to real categories in primary statistics
Mariah Nilsson (Sweden)

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)
SPPI: Czech Republic (Jiri Sulc) United States (Melanie Santiago)
Output: (TBD), Classification: television broadcasting vs streaming, significant classification changes (TBD)

Group photo + cocktail reception

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 5 – Use of Alternative data in section G)
Session leader: TBD
Retail trade: practical experience in the use of corporate data (BLS) – TBD US

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)
Trade in Service Deflators
Rhys Humphries (UK)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 7)
Update on measuring international trade in services volume
David Brackfield (OECD)

Lunch break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 8)

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)

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 9)
Harmonizing output statistics on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis 
Sebastian Rask (Sweden) and Dorothee Blang (Germany)

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 10- Classifications)
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)

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: TBD
SIC 77.4 Leasing of intellectual property
Théophile Desolle (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 considerations
Eylul Polat (Turkey) 

Session: Industry Paper
Session leader / discussant:
Ariel Juarez Morales (Mexico)
SPPI ISIC 7911 travel agency activities
Maja Dozet (Croatia), 
TBD

Lunch break

Session: Cross-cutting Topic (14)– Practical experience in using modern production systems. Poster session
Session leader: TBD
Programming languages for statistics (R, Python) and packages
Théophile Desolle (France)
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)

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