The gateway will open in January 2017. A team of professionals, based in each of the coastal states of the EU will offer advice. each submission of data wil lbe tracked through the system. The aim is to make the process as easy as possible for the user and yet to include the information about the data (where and when the data were captured, data ownership, etc) that allows the data to be re-used.
A meeting on 8 December 2016 discussed progress