Mainly abroad: all control activities and operations, in particular exercising monitoring activities by controlling, among other things, the quantity, quality and conformity of raw materials and their derived products, crude products and all manufactured and semi-manufactured objects; providing services in the context of production, marketing, handling, transportation, storage and distribution of the products and objects listed above; assisting, advising and providing services in connection with certification of conformity to national and international standard and reference standards (cf. statutes for full purpose).