Tatra Sipox (UK) Limited, supplier of Tatra trucks to the public sector BEML, is an agent of the manufacturer. This was admitted by Tatra Sipox on June 23, 1995, to the UK authorities to which it described its main activity as being the "manufacturers' agents". The fresh evidence would indicate that the contract between BEML and Tatra Sipox was in clear violation of defence rules which ban dealing with agents or middlemen.