To Mr Archer, it is obvious that the current test is "outdated, with lax procedures".

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It is difficult to diagnose mitochondrial diseases and the only current test is a muscle biopsy.

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Given the time that has spent concocting the arrangement, you have to assume to it will pass the ratings agency test (though nothing is certain, given the current state of relations between the French and German governments and the ratings agencies).

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EU's current merger rules to provide a test for when bundling, if it happened, might harm competition.

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But to recoup the cost of developing the test, the National Assessment Agency had said that it would continue "in its current form" until 2013.

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It did not test many other widely used indicators, such as the relationship between the current price of a share and its 200-day moving average.

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