Professor Loughlin Kealy:

I am bending over backwards to make sure that nothing I say is taken as setting out some sort of parameter for the discussion that will follow. I must say that.

All these charters are merely statements of principle. In the same way, the concept of authenticity, for example, is only understood in the actual real context. If we are talking about a setting of a monument, we must talk about that particular place, its own history and what it actually means. One must bear in mind that the charters are not one-size-fits-all documents. They are statements of principle which must then be interpreted and on which judgments have to be made. There is no way out of that because all actions require judgment and the judgment takes place at a point in time.