European Parliament 10 October 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-2846/02 by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Discrimination between three bidders in the award of the contract for services on the high-speed rail line in the Netherlands as a means of extorting a higher payment.

The accreditation procedure which has been initiated would seem to be a lengthy and costly bureaucratic process and to involve a reorganisation of the specific procedures of inspection and certification bodies. To date, no Italian inspection and certification body has obtained US accreditation.