Ms Sarah Neary:

No. They have very clearly and narrowly specified functions which can include factory production control and product testing. There are three different types and a combination of those two. They are stipulated in the primary legislation and the CPR. In each standard that is developed at European or CEN level, the level of third-party intervention for each construction product is identified. That is contained with the standard. Mr. Balfe mentioned the system 2+ for concrete products and aggregates. It is unique in the standards for concrete blocks that a choice is given to member states as to which level applies. It can either be no third-party intervention or a 2+ intervention, which is factory production control. Ireland Inc. has taken the option of a third-party intervention in a 2+ system and that is embedded in our national provisions in the standard recommendation. In general, it is set by Europe. Each member state has to follow that.