Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Applus+ Q1 2021 results presentation conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you require any further assistance, please press star zero. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, CEO, Mr. Fernando Basabe. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning, all. Thank you for joining the call for the first quarter 2021 results presentation of Applus+. I'm Fernando Basabe, CEO. Also on the call is Joan Amigó, our CFO, and Aston Swift, Investor Relations. The agenda for today, I will run through the highlights. Joan will then present the financials, and I will present the business review and outlook. As a reminder, for Q1 and Q3, we only show the profit and loss down to the profit before taxes level. For the divisions, we just show revenue. As we highlight here, despite revenue still being down at the group level, we are encouraged with the results we obtained in the first quarter. Remember, for Applus+, the biggest impact from COVID last year wasn't until the second quarter, which is when we will start to see the year-on-year growth return. Of the four divisions, Automotive and Labs are both back to pre-COVID levels of activity. Automotive had exceptional growth due to some additional catch-up work that was missed last year. Within Energy and Industry and IDIADA, we had some good performance in some of the business lines and markets or regions. Unfortunately, the COVID impact within these two divisions was stronger, and oil and gas continued to track heavily on energy and industry. The margin increase was good, much higher than Q1 last year, but still below Q1 in 2019. We feel it is on a good recovery path. As you know, we announced the six acquisitions last year, and these have significantly added to the results in this quarter and, of course, are accelerating the evolution of the portfolio to higher growth and higher margin businesses. Still, one of these acquisitions has not closed yet, so we have more to come shortly. Our leverage is comfortable and should continue to decrease materially from the second quarter now, and we have plenty of liquidity, and this allows us to continue to invest to accelerate profitable growth. Finally, I'm pleased to be able to confirm the outlook we gave at the end of February, double-digit growth at constant FX rates and adjusted operating profit margin improving close to 10%. On the financial highlights, we had a decrease in revenue and an increase in profit and margin. Revenue of just over EUR 400 million was 3.5% below Q1 of last year, and this had the benefit of acquisitions less negative currency. Organic revenue decline was almost 7%. On profit, we are up by over 27%, of which 20% is organic. The margin increase, although a big jump of over 200 basis points, as I said, is still below where it was in Q1 2019. Free cash flow was EUR 30 million, lower than the level in Q1 last year due to the higher working capital outflow, as we expected. Finally, comfortable leverage and liquidity, 2.9x and over EUR 500 million. With that, I hand over to Joan, who will go through the financials in more detail. Thanks, Fernando. Good morning, everyone. I will start with the Q1 2021 revenue bridge. The total revenue decreased 3.5% in the quarter, with a decrease in organic revenue at constant exchange rates of 6.8%. Revenue from acquisitions made after the first quarter of 2020 and those made so far in 2021 of 7.2%, less a currency translation impact of 3.9%. The negative FX impact corresponds mainly to the Euro appreciation against the U.S. dollar and Latin American currencies. If the rates remain stable to the end of the year, the negative currency impact should reduce substantially in the rest of the year. On the right side of the slide, we show the organic revenue change quarter by quarter, where you can appreciate the sequential improvement and the gradual recovery path. Organic adjusted operating profit was up 26.7%, with a significant organic increase of 20.5% and inorganic of 16.6%, partially offset by the unfavorable currency translation impact of 10.4%. The significant negative impact from the currency of 10.4% is higher than the equivalent impact on revenue due to the higher margin automotive contracts in Latin America, where the currencies weakened significantly. As I mentioned in the previous slide, we expect the negative currency impact to lessen in the rest of the year. Nevertheless, the margin increased to 8.7% from 6.6% in the first quarter last year from the strong organic benefit and also the accretive margin from acquisitions. Slide number nine, a summary of the income statement. First, we show the EBITDA figure of EUR 61.6 million, which comes at margin of 15.3%, which is actually in line with the EBITDA margin in 2019. Below the adjusted operating profit, we have the amortization of intangibles, the PPA, by an amount of EUR 15.6 million, EUR 14.6 million last year, with the increase corresponding to the amortization of the intangibles related to the recent acquisitions, and also below the adjusted operating profit, we have the other results of EUR 0.1 million. Net financial expense of EUR 6.1 million, similar to last year, and what we expect is around EUR 25 million-26 million of finance expense for the whole 2021. Although we are not reporting taxes or minorities at the Q1, we maintain the guidance we gave at fiscal year results for minorities of around EUR 20 million for the whole year and an effective tax rate to be in the range of 24%-25%. The business generates a strong cash flow, but in the first quarter of 2021, the cash flow was lower than in the first quarter of last year, despite the higher adjusted EBITDA by EUR 8.2 million, mainly due to the working capital changes. After ending 2020 with a negative working capital figure, our working capital is normalizing. CapEx was a net amount of EUR 8.6 million, which was EUR 3.8 million higher than last year. For tax, we had an outflow of EUR 2 million versus an inflow of EUR 4.2 million last year due to a significant refund received in 2020. Interest cash outflows, EUR 3.6 million, is slightly above last year. We expect around EUR 13 million for the whole year. The cash dividends paid to minorities' interest was EUR 3.9 million, much higher than last year, mainly due to the cancellations or delayed payments in 2020 due to COVID. We estimate around EUR 20 million for the full year. Acquisitions relates mostly to the purchase of Inecosa and Adícora from Iberdrola and a small amount of the deferred payments of previously made acquisitions. We have the balance sheet movements in cash, starting with the leases cash out by an amount of EUR 14.8 million. The increase of EUR 24.7 million in financing is the draw down of the revolving credit facilities. Overall, our cash flow is pretty straightforward, and we expect the business to continue generating strong cash. This then takes us to my final slide. Our total net debt at the end of Q1 2021 was EUR 753 million, EUR 552 million pre IFRS 16, an increase of just under EUR 12 million than the position at 2020 year end. Leverage as net debt to EBITDA came out at 2.9x, as you can see in the bottom row, and 3.1x after IFRS 16. The leverage covenant is usually four times, although for December 2020 and June 2021 test, it has been relaxed to higher levels. If we made no further acquisitions, we would expect this leverage to reduce from here, as this includes the Q2 2020 period, which was our lowest for EBITDA. Regarding liquidity, at the end of the quarter, we had over EUR 500 million of cash and undrawn facilities available. In conclusion, controllable leverage and a safe level of liquidity, which give us flexibility to support our growth strategy. After the quarter end, we took out our first green loan. It was an existing loan from CaixaBank in Spain for EUR 100 million that had one year to expire, and we extended it under new conditions that qualify for a reduction in interest rate if we met certain emissions targets. If we don't meet the targets, the interest rate increases. Although this is not a material change, it's significant to us, and it is another small step we are taking to try to improve our ESG credentials. That ends the financial slides. In the appendix, we provide further information, including a slide on the main currency rates. Let me hand you back over to Fernando Basabe. Thank you, Joan. Moving to slide number 13. This is similar to what we usually show at each half and full year with the distribution percentages and how it compares to the previous corresponding period. We do have some seasonality, so you have to be a bit careful when extrapolating this Q1 period. In the second half, we expect the auto division to be a lower share of the mix than what it was in the first quarter. The trend is clear. The revenue distribution is improving in quality, with the trend towards the higher margin businesses increasing in percentage of the group. This portfolio evolution is due to the acquisitions we made in auto and labs, and also that they are growing in Q1, whereas energy and industry and IDIADA reduced in revenue. A milestone has been reached with our statutory vehicle inspection business for the first time being the largest end market by revenue. As you know, it is the end market with the highest margin within the group. Starting now with the four divisions, I will go through the key points of the quarter for each of them and also give some information on the expectations we have for Q2. Of the four divisions, Energy & Industry had the highest revenue decrease, with it down 18.5%, of which almost 15% was organic. On the right-hand side, you can see the quarterly organic revenue changes, including how for the first quarter of last year, the coronavirus hadn't really materially impacted it yet, and it was still growing. Against this comparable period, and with the impact of COVID now across the business, we are seeing this revenue decrease. The trend will change in Q2. Within the divisions, we had a better performance from power activities, including the service for renewables and nuclear installations, than we had for oil and gas. We saw a further change in the mix of the division, with oil and gas becoming even smaller. For these reasons, we saw the Mediterranean, Latin American, and Northern European regions perform better as they have a lower proportion of oil and gas and are more exposed to power and construction-based activities. Technology continues evolving quickly, and we are increasing the use of remote inspection and digital tools. These numbers do not include the acquisition of SAFCO as we have not closed it yet. SAFCO is a construction-based business in the Middle East. We expect to close it in Q2. That will add another EUR 29 million of annual revenue at a higher margin to the division. Finally, in this division, there has been a change in the leadership. Ramón Fernández Armas has left the group. Javier López-Serrano, previously in charge of corporate development, will now lead the division. Auto Division was the most impacted in Q1 last year and has had the highest growth this Q1 period. In addition, the largest acquisition we made last year was in this division. Revenue was up 1/3 in total, of which 17% was organic and 22% from the Swedish statutory vehicle inspection company. The 6% negative currency impact was from the weaker U.S. dollar, but also the Latin American currencies. At current rates, we expect this negative impact to lessen by the end of the year. On the right-hand side, you can see the progressive improvement in organic growth rates, and in Q2 it is likely to be even higher than it was in Q1. Unfortunately, as we announced at the end of March, our systems went down in the U.S. due to a cyber attack on our auto business there. We have contracts in eight states and now they are all fully operational again. Finally, I'm pleased to say that our small contract in Andorra has been extended by five years under the same terms and conditions as the previous contract. There will be some CapEx investment made, as usual, at the start of a new contract, but nothing significant here. Another contract renewed, which reinforces our track record. IDIADA divisions continues to be affected due to the mobility restrictions. We are expecting this to improve in the second half of the year. The revenue reduced by 12.7% in total in the first quarter, which was mostly organic. The good news is we are seeing an increase in activity for the services we provide for electric and hybrid vehicles, and we continue to see growth of testing for advanced driver assistance systems. The division will follow the trend of the research and development investment in the auto industry, and we expect the amount of testing we do for combustion engine vehicles to reduce and for EVs and hybrids to continue increasing and overcompensate. The biggest impact right now is on the proving ground, which before the pandemic was almost at capacity, and now it is around 60%. It is the higher margin segment of the division, this is not helpful for the margin in the division. No news for the tender. There were elections in Catalonia recently with no clear majority government. Once this is resolved, we expect the tender to be launched. The final division, the labs, a 41% increase of the size of the business in the first quarter, which comes from the three acquisitions made last year. For the organic revenue, we've seen a pretty fast recovery here, as you can see from the right-hand side of the chart. Q1 last year was still growing at 2.7% organic, we ended with the same organic revenue as that despite the division being affected by COVID. We should see a high growth rate in Q2 as well due to the soft comp. The two large acquisitions made last year, Reliable Analysis in China and the U.S., and QPS in Canada, are performing strongly, and we hope to be able to announce another acquisition very shortly. In summary, we have had an encouraging start to the year. Remember, as I said at the start of the presentation, the real impact of COVID didn't hit us until the second quarter. We will see a very strong growth figure in Q2. Two of the four divisions have recovered to level of activity seen before the pandemic and are expected to continue growing. The other two, we expect to pick up in the second half of this year. The acquisitions we made last year have had a significant positive impact on our result in this first quarter, and we will continue to see that in the rest of the year. Most importantly, they are higher growth, higher margin businesses, and so improving the portfolio mix of the group. Our focus on profit and margin, as well as the stronger mix in the first quarter, has resulted in a good recovery in profit. For the outlook for this year, we've not changed this from what we said at the full-year results in February. We expect double-digit growth in revenue coming from both organic and the acquisitions we've made to that date, and for the margin to improve to close to 10%. As you've seen, our liquidity and leverage are both good and can comfortably support our inorganic growth strategy. That concludes the presentation. Joan and I are ready to take your questions now. Thank you. Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press the pound key. Your first question comes from the line of Kate Somerville at UBS. Please ask your question. Your line is now open. Thank you. Morning, everyone. Would it be all right if you could give an idea of the energy and industry organic growth by just CapEx, OpEx, and non-oil and gas-related activities? Secondly, can you give an idea of the exit rate for the Q1? Finally, just regionally, where are you seeing the fastest recovery? Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Kate. I'm sorry, I didn't hear very well your questions. You may have to repeat second and third. On energy and industry, you asked by growth, by end markets. Well, oil and gas was down in Q1, 25%. CapEx was down around 40%, and OpEx was down around 20%. That gives you an idea of what we are suffering. On the other hand, the rest of the end markets overall were growing at around 2%. Within those end markets, we have aerospace, which is also suffering. Where we are seeing excellent growth is in power-related activities, mainly renewables and nuclear. Going forward, I think OpEx-related activities in oil and gas will recover. This is statutory work that the companies have to do. The reason for the continuous decrease is more mobility restrictions. For instance, in the Middle East, what we are seeing is we cannot fly expats into the different facilities to do the work. A lot of work is being delayed, and we expect to see that OpEx side catching up. CapEx side is different. It is now very small part of the revenue of the group, and we don't think that will improve during the year. Your second question, if I may ask you again. Sorry. Yeah. It was just what the exit rates were for the Q1. I think the comps are so different that what you're going to see in Q2 and already in April is a strong growth in every division. In March, we had, I think it was the last 10 days of March, the vehicle inspection stations were closed in almost every country. I think March this year, we were already growing at very high rates in auto. In Q2 last year, we were almost closed. I think the growth rate will be 50%, 60% in Q2. I don't think it's that significant when comparing Qs this year. On the other hand, Energy & Industry, we were growing last year in Q1. Oil and gas was growing last year in Q1, this year it has been totally different. In March, we didn't see, it was better than January and February, April was already a very good growth. The same for IDIADA and the lab. Q2, the picture will be totally different, but I don't think it's so meaningful. Your third question, Kate, sorry, can you repeat it again? Yeah. It was just regionally, where are you seeing the fastest recovery, and where are there still some significant issues? Regionally. I think on energy and industry, I mentioned the areas that have less oil and gas percentage of revenue. That is Latin America. We saw growth already in Q1. Mediterranean, which is mainly Spain for us, was also good in Q1. Northern Europe, and that's for us the main activities there, I'm always talking on energy and industry, are U.K., Germany, and the Netherlands were also doing well. The worst ones, Asia-Pacific, which for us is Australia, which was very strong in Q1 last year. Middle East, where I mentioned the mobility restrictions. We have difficulties there to operate yet. North America, of course, I think the U.S. The U.S. had on top of the, let's say, the COVID impact, we had the weather storms in Texas and in other parts of the country. We had, I think it was two or three weeks with almost no activity there. That's for energy and industry. On the auto business, on vehicle inspection, I would say it's all good. There are some problems in some areas of Latin America, but not really impacting materially the business. I think there we are seeing now operations are, I would say, normal. Catching up in some places from last year, but I would say fully operational everywhere. Some restriction in the labs and IDIADA. Basically, we have our facilities here in Catalonia, and there are some mobility restrictions that are impacting us. In IDIADA, I mentioned in the proving ground, and some in the labs as well. Other than that, they are almost operational normally. The impact for us is still in energy and industry and in IDIADA. What we expect is, and we are seeing it already, this to start being less and less, and we should have a good second half. The second quarter is going to be good, but compared to last year, as I said, not very meaningful. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Edward Stanley at Morgan Stanley. Morning, both. Thanks for taking my question. I've got three. The follow-up to one of Kate's questions. When you say CapEx was down 40% in Q1, thinking about your outlook of that not improving, just so I'm sure, should we model that CapEx is going to be down 40% in each of the subsequent quarters of the year? Is the first clarification point. Secondly, what's your competitive advantage in renewables, given that your peers like Bureau Veritas and SGS are talking more about renewables and contracts they're winning in wind, for example. Which segments or countries do you see the most growth for you? Is most of that growth coming from existing customers? Final question, in remote inspection, it's been asked before, but it's useful as we get further away from the initial impacts of COVID. Remote inspections, are you seeing as being margin accretive over time? Are you able to hold on to any of those cost savings? Just any more help on profitability there would be great, please. Okay. On your first question, yes, CapEx decrease was 40%. When I say it's not going to improve, I don't mean it's going to decrease 40% every quarter. I was speaking more long-term. What we think is that the overall CapEx in the industry is not going to improve much. I think it's now 5% of our revenue or something similar. It's not going to be much more than that. I would tend to think it will continue decreasing. On top of that, what we see is that the very few projects that come to the market are very competitive. We are not interested in bidding for some projects that are almost at a very no margin or very small margin. I think it's a part of our business that we will see continuous decreases, not at 40%, but it's an area where we are not going to grow, to invest or to be so interested going forward. Your second question on renewables. So far, almost all our activity is in wind onshore, where the customers are same customers that we serve in the different countries, so power generating companies or companies that we've been working for with for many years, like Vestas or like Gamesa. That's manufacturers of the tower winds. Our competitive advantage is we have the know-how. We have the customers. We are well-positioned in the geographies where some of these investments are taking place, and we've been working in this area for years. What we want is to expand to other technologies where like solar, where our presence is much lower. I think during this year, we will have good news in that area. Finally, on your question about margins on remote inspection, I think costs are substantially lower when we are able to do remote inspection or use new technologies. Normally there is a share of the difference between the customer and ourselves. Yes, it is higher margin business, and at the same time, it's better price for the customers. Yes, it is significantly higher margin than the traditional inspection with much more manpower involved. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Paul Sullivan at Barclays. Please ask your question. Yeah. Morning, all. Just to follow up on the renewables question. Do you think you can pivot to solar and offshore wind organically, or will you be relying on M&A, and won't the latter be quite expensive? Then just in terms of current trading, when do you think you'll be back to 2019 levels at group organic? Second quarter, it feels like it's probably a little too soon, but your thoughts on that, particularly in terms of the phasing of recovery in energy and industry. Yeah, back to 2019 levels at the group and the ENI, that would be helpful. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Paul. I think expanding in solar or offshore wind will probably require an acquisition, and we are working on that. Otherwise, the development will be very slow. What we expect is to be able to do it during this year. Is it going to be expensive? Well, probably, yes. Expensive in terms of multiple, but given the growth that we are seeing in these areas, expensive is always a relative term. If we are able to succeed, yes, we will pay probably a high multiple, but for a business that is growing very quickly and with good margins. On your second question, maybe Joan, if you can take this one. Yes. Paul, regarding when we'll recover the levels of 2019, as we have said, there are a couple of divisions that more or less we are in pre-COVID levels, labs and auto. In energy and industry and IDIADA, it take longer. I estimate that to have the revenue that we had in 2019 will be most likely in 2022. Regarding more about margin, we'll improve significantly in the margin. As you know, the outlook that we are providing for this year is that we should be near 10%. As you know, last year in the second semester, we were slightly above 10% and mainly due to the significant growth in auto. Most likely as well, the margin should be in similar ways than in 2019 next year. That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Pedro Alves at CaixaBank. Please ask your question. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for taking my question. Just one here on energy and industry, just a follow-up. Is it possible to have more clarity on the reasons for this deterioration of organic growth sequentially from the previous quarters? Have you lost any relevant client to competition? Asking this because one of your competitors reported an improvement in performance sequentially in a similar division. Thank you very much. Thank you, Pedro. No, we haven't lost any significant contract or has not been renewed or any significant customer. No, I think what we see is depending on the regions and the end market, the impact is quite different. Oil and gas, as I mentioned, continues decreasing very strongly, but Q1 last year for us was good. It was growing. Out of oil and gas in our other end markets, I mentioned aerospace is suffering heavily also, and will probably continue so for the rest of this year. Whereas power renewables, construction, those are end markets that are performing quite well. No, the reason for this trend or for this decrease is not because we have not renewed a large contract or have lost a big customer. Okay, thank you. Just last one, in your full year 2021 guidance, are you still comfortable given what you're seeing in terms of April organic growth, feel comfortable with assuming organic growth close to a mid-single digit rate? I mean, within your double-digit growth at constant FX. I think we've reiterated the guidance. We are quite comfortable with it, yes. Probably at half one, we will give an update and maybe review it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press the pound key. Your next question comes from the line of Pablo Cuadrado at Kepler Cheuvreux. Please ask your question. Your line is now open. Hi, good morning, everyone. Just two or three questions on my side, if I may. The first one will be on the SAFCO acquisition, because I think it was announced, if I'm not mistaken, at the end of last year, but it still is not consolidated. You are mentioning about Q2. Can you tell us a little bit more precisely if you expect the contribution of the acquisition during the whole quarter, mid-quarter, or having a little bit more idea? The second question will be on the working capital. Clearly, we saw this deterioration in Q1 as business was resuming in some areas. What do you think about the coming quarters and clearly, when compared particularly to the improvement that you had last year, do you expect a significant still deterioration for Q2 or second half of this year? You expect that it can remain stable where it is at the end of Q1? Just finally, on this topic today, which is clearly the hot potato for energy and industry, this - 20% that you mentioned on the OpEx, let's say decline. It's fair to say that, just assuming the catch-up of things that you were not able to do last year with the pandemic, with the mobility restriction, you should go to, let's say, 0%, so basically flat terms. You think that even assuming the catch-up recovery from last year, you can still move to negative territory this year? Okay. Thank you, Pablo. On your first question on SAFCO, we expect a closing end of May. Things in Arabia go slow. That's why we are still waiting for some authorizations from the government. We expect it to be, as I said, end of May, beginning of June. We will consolidate soon, starting from that date. I'll go to your third question and then hand over to Joan. On the OpEx side, you said, I think there will be some work that will be not recovered. That happened also some years ago with the last crisis, so the customers will reduce as much as possible. However, overall, I think it will not be very material. What we expect is our OpEx revenue to go back to where it was before the pandemic. Probably second half of this year, if there are no more waves in the areas where we operate, and we don't have much business in India or Brazil or places where now the COVID is heavily impacting. I think we should be able to recover most of the work that we were doing pre-pandemic. We will also see how our competitors, where they are now at the end of this crisis. Last time, we were able to increase market share, and maybe this time it's the same. We will do a big effort in our OpEx business within oil and gas, in energy and industry. I mentioned before, whereas in the CapEx side, we are not strategically so interested going forward. Pablo, regarding working capital, what was exceptional was the number that we got at year-end of 2020, that as you know, we got a final negative working capital for several reasons, because certain customers pay in advance, even, for instance, in labs and IDIADA. We invest significantly in CapEx due to COVID in the last month of the year. In some countries, it was delayed, the payment of several local taxes. Overall, we had an outstanding figure at year-end. What we're expecting this year is that the working capital should be normalized. Just to let you know that at group level, for instance, right now, the working capital in absolute figure at the end of the quarter was around EUR 29 million, whereas last year in Q1 2020, was above EUR 100 million. A significant, very good situation right now. What we expect going forward is that working capital most likely will continue increasing mainly in Q2. I think in Q3, maybe will increase a little bit or less flat or a slight increase, and finally in Q4 should decrease a little bit. This is what we are expecting. Overall, for the whole year, what I'm expecting is an increase of working capital in the range of EUR 40 million-EUR 50 million. All right. That's very clear. Thank you. Thank you. Your last question comes from the line of Oscar Val Mas at JP Morgan. Please ask your question your line is open. Yes, good morning. I have three questions on the automotive division. The first one on the cyber attack in the U.S., which happened in April. Should we expect any material exceptional costs or an impact on growth from the attack? The second question on the catch-up demand, it seems like it was still a benefit in Q1 or a small benefit. Will there be any catch-up benefit in Q2 still in terms of maybe Ireland hasn't fully reopened? The third question is a longer-term question, looking two, three years ahead. Now that you have a Swedish business and maybe there's more EVs in Sweden, how should we think about needing to invest in more equipment for EV testing? Is that a relevant point, or is the testing similar for EVs to your normal vehicles? Thank you. Okay. Let me start with your first question regarding the issue that we have got in Auto U.S. The important thing is that right now we already have, as Fernando said, all the contracts up and running, which is quite important. We are still analyzing that, so we don't really know exactly the final impact that we could have. In any case, we don't really expect any material impact for the group. I think your second question was on the benefit in Q1 of Auto, no? Is that right? Yes, catch-up. If there's any catch-up still in Q2. In Q2, yes. Compared to last year, we did nothing last year in Q2 because we were closed. Compared to Q1, we already in most of the countries up to date. I think there's still some small catch-up, but there is such a change in seasonality, and that is difficult to see because the seasonality changed totally last year because of the stations being closed and the governments took different decisions concerning that catch-up. In some countries, despite these stations being closed two to three months, the cars will have to go again to the original dates, whereas in other countries, the cars will have to go starting from last year. Instead of, let's say, April, they will start going in July every year, which is when that was open. It's going to be a little bit messy to compare years and seasonality. What I think or what we see is that we are now fully operational almost everywhere with some small problems in some places in Latin America, but I would say minor. There shouldn't be much catch-up to be done. Your third question about the future of EVs and the impact. We operate basically in two systems. One is countries where we do safety inspection and emission testing, and that's almost everywhere with the exceptions of the U.S. In the countries where we do safety and emission testing, the emission testing is a very small part of the test. The price is same price for EVs or for other cars, regardless you do the emission testing or not. The amount of EVs that have to be tested is really absolutely marginal because we test old cars. Cars with more than four years EVs is a very small number of the car park, and I think this won't change in the, I would say for a decade at least. The U.S. is different because everything is emission testing. In the long run, in the U.S., it will disappear. What we expect is that there will be new regulation around the testing of batteries, because today there's no regulation about testing batteries. The European Union we know is working on it, and what we expect is some new legislation that will make these tests compulsory as well, and it will probably more than compensate what we might lose because of emission testing in the U.S. Okay. That's very clear. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We've received another question, and that question comes from the line of Simon Lechipre. Please ask your question. Your line is now open. Yes, good morning. Simon Lechipre, Stifel. Two questions on energy and industry. First of all, following up on previous questions on OpEx. You mentioned in one of the previous call you were expecting the end market to post mid-single digit growth this year. Is it still a valid assumption? Secondly, still on ENI, what's the progression of remote inspection at this stage? Thank you. On your second question, the progression of remote inspection, I don't have the figure of how much of the revenue is. What we see is that it grows every day everywhere. We have different tools, and they are being more and more used. I think in, I would say 5- 10 years, it will be almost everything that can be done remotely will be done remotely. What has happened during the pandemic is that the trend has clearly accelerated. I think there's no way back. On your first question. Can you say it again? Because I didn't hear you well. Still on energy industry, on the OpEx division. I remember you mentioned in one of the previous call you are expecting mid-single digit growth in 2021. Is it still a valid assumption? Yes, I think. As I mentioned before, I think comparing 2021 to 2020 is not with such a strange year in 2020. What I think is that we expect in our OpEx business for the oil and gas to grow close to mid-single digit as an average in the coming years. As I comparing to 2020, I'm not sure. Maybe it's probably more. It will depend on the second half. I think the assets are going to be there for a long time. We don't see new entrants in this market as we saw in the past. We think that our customers will reduce the number of suppliers. This was a trend that was happening and will probably accelerate. We see the OpEx part of our oil and gas business as solid, as good margin. It doesn't require much CapEx. I think the average growth for the coming years will be mid-single digits. Thank you. Thank you. No further questions at this time. Therefore, I would like to hand back to the speaker. Thank you. Thank you all for attending the call and have a good day. Thank you. Goodbye.
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