Ms Sarah Neary:

The Department is the notifying authority and alongside the Irish National Accreditation Board, INAB, we designate notified bodies based on an application process. Up until 2019, the NSAI was the only notified body in the country. In the context of the CPR, a notified body can come from any member state. A notified body in France, for example, could operate the factory production control for Irish companies. That is just a feature of the EU system. Those French notified bodies would have an equivalent designating body like ourselves, a notifying authority, in France. In that way, there is a clear chain or line of responsibility back.