The European Union is taking another step towards getting standards in place for online gaming. It’s European Committee for Standardisation has asked Mark Pace, the managing director of Gaming Standards Association (GSA) to pave the way for the creation of online gaming activity reporting standards.

GGRAsia reports the GSA announced Pace would take the lead role of the new Technical Committee 456 to this role on January 15 in a written statement.

The goal of the committee will be to develop “a single set of data elements and a standard method for data to be supplied to regulators in each EU country.”

Pace was honored by the appointment, saying in a press release: