For the first meeting, the European Commission brought ‘Suppliers’ together to discuss the content and functioning of the future EU product database. Additional meetings are going to follow involving the ‘Public’ and ‘Market Surveillance Authorities’. The objective is to get the database operational by 1 January 2019 as requested by the framework Regulation 2017/1369, sticking to its requirements. The Eurovent Team has attended the meeting and summarised its outcome and key results for members.