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This chapter describes how the Dutch-Flemish Human Language Technology Agency (HLT Agency, TST-Centrale in Dutch) takes care of the STEVIN results, after completion of the projects. The HLT Agency is a central repository for mainly government-funded digital Dutch language resources (LRs). Details on how the HLT Agency acquires, manages, maintains and distributes the LRs developed within the STEVIN programme are provided. In addition, the role played by the HLT Agency in advising STEVIN projects on intellectual property rights (IPR) issues and in facilitating the LR transfer process is also described. Attention is then paid to the licensing, pricing and IPR policies, which are necessary to guarantee the sustainability and availability of LRs for research, education and commercial purposes. Thanks to STEVIN, the HLT Agency has become a linchpin of the Dutch-Flemish HLT community.

In this chapter I will briefly and very globally describe the impact of the STEVIN programme as a whole to human language technology (HLT) for the Dutch language in the Low Countries. I will identify a number of research data and topics that are, despite the STEVIN programme, still insufficiently covered but needed. Here I will also take into account international developments in the field of HLT that are relevant in this context. I identify recent international trends with regard to HLT programmes, assess the position of the Dutch language, and the prospects for funding of programmes and projects that are natural successors to the STEVIN programme. I also make some suggestions to government administrations for future policy actions.