10 The evaluation of a potential applicant company
in relation to the requirement that "there is a well-founded confidence
that the company concerned will remain viable for the foreseeable
future and will remain in a position to deliver the required services
over an extended period" poses particular difficulties. Financial
regulations and laws in many countries prevent companies from making
the kind of forward-looking statements that could assist the Committee
in this regard, and any publicly owned company is entirely subject
to the vagaries of the stock markets. Therefore, it is recommended
that the proposing government(s) should be the only entity(ies) that
should make a statement to the Committee in relation to this requirement,
and such a statement might probably only be phrased in terms of the
requirement itself. For instance, it could be stated that the provider
has been providing services for […] years, is a going concern,
and that there is no reason to believe that the provider would not
be able to continue to do so.