Provision is also made for the continuation of the public service monitoring group, which was established under the PPF, and consists of representatives of the public service employers and the public service unions. In addition to fostering industrial peace, the approach in this agreement builds on the experience in the PPF in that it links payments to the achievement of progress on flexibility and change. There is a strong emphasis on the need for co-operation with change and with modernisation. Unlike the PPF, in which only the final phase of the agreement was linked to achievement of targets, the target setting in this case will have to allow assessments of progress before each phase of the general rounds and the final two phases of the benchmarking increases are paid.