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All those who monitor Community press releases daily on Rapid may have become aware that they sometimes miss some releases. If you check the 'Latest documents' around noon each day (UK time), immediately after the daily update, you won't ever see the releases that are put out later that day and are then removed from 'Latest documents' before the next day's update. Here is the explanation from the Rapid team: "As a general rule, the RAPID data base is automatically updated at 12h30/13H00 each day with the press releases distributed to the press at the 12h00 meeting. However, the Spokesmen are starting to regularly send out press releases by "Emergency procedure" to the journalists in the afternoon. When this happens, we update the system again. If a note goes out by E-mail to the journalists very late in the evening or during a weekend, we shall put it onto RAPID either the morning after or first thing on a Monday morning. I'm afraid there is no particular time when we update in the afternoon - the secretaries warn us that a note has gone out to the Agencies by E-mail and we are asked to place it straight away on RAPID." So the safest way of ensuring comprehensive monitoring is always to check yesterday's releases as well as today's. Regards, Chris Lamb Documentation Officer Technical Assistance Office Euro Info Centre Network 70 rue Montoyer B-1000 Bruxelles Tel: +32 2 287 1553 Fax: +32 2 230 0520 Email: [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%