If you want to do a benchmarking exercise there are various ways of going about it.

BDO Consulting recently performed a benchmarking exercise for the London treasury operations of 15 banks.

You could also carry out a benchmarking exercise to see how your business compares to others.

The Dutch benchmarking program was the first nationwide benchmarking exercise in the water supply sector in continental Europe.

You could also carry out a benchmarking exercise to establish how you compare against similar businesses.

As I said, the independent benchmarking exercise in February will hopefully give us the information that will help us to fight our case in Europe.

We look forward to wide publicity for the benchmarking exercises, particularly in the areas of enterprise and innovation.

A benchmarking exercise, especially the benchmarking of public services and services of general economic interest, would be difficult to carry out.

As well as benchmarking exercises, we should also consider initiatives such as the Solve-it Scheme.

Thus if we carry out a benchmarking exercise, I can inform you that it is rather favourable to the Commission and its administrative actions.