Ms Sarah Neary:

The Department is the notifying authority, which means we are responsible for designating notified bodies. There is an application process to go through to become a notified body. We have ten notified bodies operating in the country at this time and three technical assessment bodies. The NSAI is both a notified body and a technical assessment body. Regarding concrete blocks, the NSAI is one of the few bodies that carries out factory production control audits.