  The first results of the GERDA double beta experiment in Gran Sasso were
recently presented. They are fully consistent with the Heidelberg-Moscow
experiment, but because of its low statistics cannot proof anything at this
moment. It is no surprise that the statistics is still far from being able to
test the signal claimed by the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment. The energy
resolution of the coaxial detectors is a factor of 1.5 worse than in the
HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment. The original goal of background reduction to
10^{-2}counts/kgykeV, or by an order of magnitude compared to the
HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment, has not been reached. The background is only a
factor 2.3 lower if we refer it to the experimental line width, i.e. in units
counts/kgy energy resolution.
  With pulse shape analysis (PSA) the background in the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW
experiment around Q_{\beta\beta} is 4x10^{-3} counts/kgykeV
\cite{HVKK-IVK-MPhLA2006}, which is a factor of 4 (5 referring to the line
width) lower than that of GERDA with pulse shape analysis.
  The amount of enriched material used in the GERDA measurement is 14.6kg, only
a factor of 1.34 larger than that used in the HM experiment. The background
model is oversimplified and not yet adequate. It is not shown that the lines of
their background can be identified. GERDA has to continue the measurement
further ~5years, until they can responsibly present an understood background.
The present half life limit presented by GERDA of T_{1/2}^{0\nu} > 2.1 x
10^{25} y (90% confidence level, i.e. 1.6sigma)) is still lower than the
half-life of T_{1/2}^{0\nu} = 2.23^{{+0.44}_{-0.31}} x 10^{25} y
\cite{HVKK-IVK-MPhLA2006} determined in the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment.
