Ms Judy Walsh:

Yes. It enables us to have a broader glance at the issues that may be arising.

In terms of the democratic legitimacy question, how that has been dealt with across different countries has been quite different. The general rule under European Union law is that the organisation must have a legitimate interest in pursuing the case, which is quite a light standard, obviously. Then, in different countries, they have established different metrics for demonstrating that people have a legitimate interest. Clearly, we may not want to open it up to absolutely anybody to say they just invented an NGO yesterday and they want to take a case. We may want to say that they must be a registered charitable organisation and that the goal of advancing equality and anti-discrimination must be in their article of association, etc. Therefore, different methods have been used across the European Union to deal with that issue.