Indeed. When we implemented the SMS, we never intended to stop inspections. What we ultimately want is to obtain a compliance profile for each railway company. We want to know their compliance profile and how their safety management systems work. If a railway company has a good profile, if it does not have many accidents, if our inspections turn up nothing and if the safety management system is in compliance, we will conduct fewer inspections. We would then concentrate on railway companies which have more problems. And in the case of those, we would really have to go back to basics, which is to conduct inspections.
On December 11th, 2007. See this statement in context.