With a view to facilitating the establishment of joint investigation teams and to allow, where possible, consistency between member states with drawing up agreements for the establishment of teams, a Council recommendation for a standard model agreement was adopted by the Council of the European Union on 8 May. The model is intended to allow for flexibility and to be adapted according to particular circumstances, i.e. not all of the provisions would necessarily be used in every case. The Council recommendation is an unbinding measure – it is being recommended. I agree that it is appropriate that the agreement to establish a team, rather than legislation itself, address the issue of costs. The Senator might wish to note that the model agreement, in dealing with organisational arrangements, allows for the setting out of costs, which will be subject to the exclusive competence of one or other of the parties to the agreement and to costs which will be shared by the competent authorities establishing the team. It is important to remember that the cost is a shared one between the member states involved. We will never bear the burden of the cost alone.