On May 29, 2018 the LRI MS Connection project partners - Estonia and Austria held a joint telephone conference meeting together with Mr. Gabriel Sima, the representative of the DG JUST, European Commission.

On 23 May 2018 The LRI (Land Register Interconnection) Expert Group Meeting was held in Brussels. The partners of the LRI MS Connection project were attending the Meeting. The representative of Austria, Mr. Johann Kickinger delivered a presentation of the on-going activities and preliminary results of the project (slides in pdf). Ms.

In May the focus of the project LRI MS Connection was pointed towards the issues related to the LRI user authentication and authorisation. On 8 May 2018 a special workshop of the partners was held in Vienna, titled as "Prepare Authentication Mechanism" (slides of the workshop in pdf).

In April the partners of the project LRI MS Connection focused on fully getting acquainted with the LRI documents provided by the European Commission, in order to kick-start the core project activities. One of the main goals of the LRI MS Connection project is to establish a reliable authorisation mechanism for the professional users of the land register interconnection service at the e-Justice portal.

The Centre of Registers and Information Systems in Estonia, and the Austrian Ministry of Justice have launched an EU funded project Land Register Interconnection for Member States (Grant agreement No: 785840) starting on March 1, 2018.

The technical solution, which will be developed as the outcome of the project, will be integrated with the current Estonian land register information system in 2019. Also, this service will be included in the new generation land register information system LIS, envisioned to be launcehd in 2020.