Dr. Eoin Ryan:

The current proposal is that the Commission would set up a centralised index database. I am sure this would be something that it would put out to tender and it would then get the data from each of the approved national databases and this overall system would function as a single, searchable database. This is the proposal. In a way, this mirrors what currently happens with Europetnet. The difference is that this would be a mandatory, European-wide database.