Abstract : At the ESReDA Executive Committee meeting, on June 9th, 1992, it was decided to initiate a working group on Accident Analysis under the supervision of J.P. PINEAU. Every ESReDA member was invited to provide suggestions and members. After some preliminary attempts to define a protocol on networking conditions between organisations managing databases and end-users of databases, it became evident that there was first a need to exchange information between database managers, developers and end-users.