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SBS information

All Member States have to deliver confidentialised tables to Eurostat according to the new SBS-regulation.

Obviously τ-ARGUS could play an important role here. As all Member States will need the same hierarchical structure files we have decided to produce then centrally. The hierarchy files can be downloaded here.


τ-ARGUS cannot yet read directly the SBS-format files. However a conversion program is available. It can be downloaded here. We are considering to include this functionality on τ-ARGUS.

A conversion program for converting SBS-files into τ-ARGUS format

A description of the conversion program
Date 10 November 2009

For any further information on the use of τ-ARGUS please contact Peter-Paul de Wolf.


For participants of the SBS-course a new version of τ-ARGUS (3.3.1 build 20) is available here
And a new manual is here.