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(From Fair Disclosure Wire)
So my feeling is that you're not too far off, in fact, where you started. If you take four times the number you've got there, you shouldn't be too far off. JAN WILLEM BERGHUIS: Okay. Thank you. OPERATOR: The next question is from Mr. Bos, ING. Go ahead please. CORNELIS BOS, ANALYST, ING: Yes, hello. Could you perhaps split out as a percentage of sales in DDS both in the first quarter of 2005 and in the first quarter of 2006 which percentage of total sales is actually recurring and which percentage is non-recurring?
ROKUS VAN IPEREN: Can we look at that, Jan?
JAN VAN DEN BELT: One second please. Yes, I can do that. In 2005 the number was -- it is basically, it is one-third recurring, two-thirds non-recurring, in both quarters. CORNELIS BOS: Both in the first quarter '05 and in the first quarter '06 and in DDS it was --?
JAN VAN DEN BELT: Well, it's just [off] in DDS, yes. CORNELIS BOS: Okay. Very good. A second question, can you perhaps say something on, especially machine sales growth, in DDS Europe versus the U.S? Or -- it seems that machine sales in the U.S. were weaker than expected. Can you tell us something about developments in Europe in DDS?
ROKUS VAN IPEREN: No, that's -- your conclusion that the U.S. is weaker than Europe is not quite right, I would say. And also in Europe the integration of Imagistics in the U.K. had some impact on that. So we don't split out the development of the non-recurring and the recurring in Europe as well. CORNELIS BOS: Okay. Then the other question, can you say something about the profitability of Business Services that there was good organic growth? Is it actually also reflected in margins in Business Services?
ROKUS VAN IPEREN: Also the margins are improving in Business Services. CORNELIS BOS: Okay. Very good. Thank you. ROKUS VAN IPEREN: Okay. OPERATOR: [OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS]. Next question is from Mr. Weier, UBS. SVEN WEIER: Yes two follow-up questions if I may, first of all on your tax rate. I was just wondering what kind of tax rate we should pencil in for the full year?