It is shown that a central
extension of a Lie groupoid by an Abelian Lie group A has a principal A-bundle
structure and the extended Lie groupoid is classified by an Euler es-class. Then we
prove that for a symplectic α-connected, αβ-transversal or α-simply connected
groupoid, there exists at most one central S1-extension, the Euler es-class of which
corresponds to the Poisson cohomology class of the Poisson manifold of
units.