Its highly qualified collaborators and leaders have largely potentiated this role. This high profile is based on a very rigorous process of recruitment and a very constructive and independent attitude towards all states. The ANA has been, and should keep being, the meeting point of two tendencies. On the one hand, a “centralisation” tendency in the sense that it is part of its role to build a “national platform” of data and knowledge, a role which no other organisation can perform that way.