administration, in the sense of a holding company, of financial participations in companies established outside the Swiss Confederation, and more specifically in the United Arab Emirates and other countries of the Persian Gulf; operation of inspection, supervision, control of weights and qualities, tallying, inspections, sampling, quality control and conformity testing of manufactured products, industrial facilities, particularly in the oil industry, service of offshore and onshore oil platforms, as well as operation and management of warehouses and laboratories for the analysis of goods, metals, minerals, liquids, petroleum and petrochemical products.