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In response,
9.
recommendations
the consultants have made
concerning the organisation of the
Government s monitoring arrangements and the documentation
of the whole monitoring process They recommend that
existing procedures should be placed on a more formal
basis and that a task force should be set up το Oversee
and implement this process. The consultants discuss in
their report the questions of system planning and load
forecasting and have also commended the Government' S
programme for monitoring in this field.
They describe the
Government's commissioning of technical consultants as
adequately fulfilling the monitoring requirements in
relation to system planning, and they recommend that such
consultants be retained to examine the technical aspects
of future financing plan submissions. We welcome these
recommendations.
10.
The report examines the monitoring of the
operational aspects of the power companies' activities,
including such subjects as fuel procurement, ma or
equipment and service procurement and transactions with
affiliated companies. The full implementation of all the
recommendations in these areas would result in a much
greater level of Government involvement
in the affairs of
the power companies than at present. It will thus be
important; when examining the extent to which we should
/implement