The third Progress Meeting for the GSE FM Stage 2 was held in Paris, France from 6-7 July 2006. The meeting was hosted by Dr. M. Deshayes of Cemagref, France. The main aim of this PM was the presentation of the delivery of the service cases to the users.

A total of 29 partners attended, the majority being Service Providers. The results of the third quarter of the Phase 1, indicated that the new procedures related to improved control on the standards and quality assurance for production as well as documentation of the

Service Operations had been adopted by the Service Network and provided more transparent and homogenous methods of documenting and assessing progress.