75. In response to the comment by the European Union, the representative of New Zealand reaffirmed his delegation's support for an obligation to consult the register, an obligation that was embodied in the joint proposal (TN/IP/W/10/Rev.2) proposal, and said that under New Zealand's administrative law an obligation to consult the source of information implied an obligation to take that information into account. His delegation did not consider that taking information into account meant that the relative weight of that information needed to be prescribed, or that any particular source of information needed to be predetermined as a dominant source. Nor did his delegation consider that one particular source of information should bias a decision maker in a particular direction. In short, his delegation was for consulting the register; it was for taking that information into account, but it was against predetermining the weight of that evidence.
