“Good morning and thank you very much. Um, regarding the questions, for example, on the original, uh, contract, uh constellation and uh, unclear technical specifications, um, and whether we had a coordination function. We have, uh, after the problems we had with wing Em 1.0, and we had an advisory request with the Iiss, who advised us to reinforce the coordination system, meaning the coordination for work for wing two, for wing Em 2.0. And we have taken this on board. The JRC has put in place a reinforced coordination team, but also using now available technologies. When you are putting up your buildings, meaning we have a 3D model which helps us to redefine much better the technical specification, which was a problem in the beginning. We have a digital twin offering and put in place, and we can itemize what we need. And this has now led to a reinforced coordination and learning from the past regarding, as I said in German, such with Westinghouse, we had strong a lot of negotiations with Westinghouse, and in the end we only paid what was done. There was a calculation of the works which Westinghouse has put in place, and only this was paid. And Westinghouse and also we agreed that they are not asking to fulfill the whole contract, and that's why we could break it without losses for the commission and could restart and enter in retendering what we have done. And so now that's why we really have changed the way we are going about this project between itemization and a digital twin. Thank you very much.”
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