Ms Catherine Day:

The member states send us the input only at the end of April, and some of them are a few days late, so the process begins in early May. We work every public holiday and weekend in May to turn this around so by the end of May we can come out with the country-specific recommendations. It must be possible to agree with the member states to advance by a few weeks into April or even the end of March so that we could come in mid or early May and have two months for this process rather than one. It is a question of trying to move national civil services to bring us the data a few weeks earlier.