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DIRLAB (DIRective LABels) was first envisaged by the team of experts who  developed and ran the Programme: Regional Assurance of Quality (PRAQ 91) which co-ordinated the process of integrating the Central and Eastern European countries into the single market. The Programme was completed when the first applicants joined the European Union (2005).

DIRLAB consolidated the experience gained during the enlargement process to create the Computer-Assisted Transposition (CaT) software. CaT is designed to transpose essential requirements and harmonise national regulations according to an accurate, traceable and guaranteed process (see Software). CaT has been successful field-tested.

Operating at very low cost, using transpositions from EU States for reference, DIRLAB's CaT demonstrated cultural robustness and high efficiency during EU-funded field trials for ASEAN in the national languages of Laos and Vietnam. Starting from scratch, the local agents of each country were trained in only 2 days and the first ASEAN Directive was transposed in less than 6 hours, including the final checks certifying the conformity of the national drafts (see Survey).