Si j'étais responsable du bureau — ce qui, heureusement, n'est pas le cas —, je m'efforcerais de le rendre le plus efficient possible pour que les réponses soient communiquées dans un délai de deux ou trois mois, plutôt que 10 mois.
If I were running things, which thankfully I'm not, I would try very hard to get the office moving very efficiently so that responses would come within two or three months, not ten months, and then you could say, ``Okay, now it's thinkable for us to adhere to Madrid'.