Expert information and decision support systems 3. The analyses and recommendations of the Forum Info 2000 Committee were published in summer 1998 as volume 105 of the series of the Federal Ministry for Health. All these activities are also supported by draft legislation and by the Action Programme of the German Federal Government on Innovation and Jobs in the Information Society of the 21st Century. A progress report is in work. Present achievements Legislation to transfer the EU directive on electronic signatures is under way.
States have to add additional legislation to introduce HPCs.
There is a tendency to use XML as a syntax to describe the information objects.