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We needed to be satisfied, therefore, that the

Assessment Office had made, and was operating,

efficient arrangements for handling all the

letters, submissions, and media material it

received through the processes of receipt,

registration, translation, photocopying, analysis,

assessment and final disposal.

(b) We considered that the accuracy of the Assessment

Office's work would need to be judged in the

(c)

context of the analyses, assessments, and factual

summaries it would have to make of all the material

it received, and in particular of the "overall

assessment of the extent of acceptance" of the

draft agreement.

We took the view that our role of observing,

over a period of two months, "the work of the

Assessment Office in all its aspects" should

enable us to judge whether it had discharged

all its duties impartially and had faithfully

followed its prescribed procedures.

THE MONITORING PROGRAMME

6.

In the light of this approach we set ourselves

a monitoring programme which would enable us, in effect,

to audit the day-to-day work of the Assessment Office.

In order to assist us in our monitoring role, we included

in the programme arrangements to witness (in the words of our

terms of reference) "aspects of the exercise of consultation".