Mr. Donal Coleman:

At the moment they do not deal in any way with the possibility of GM plants or varieties coming into the country. These are regulations in regard to conventional plant material. They are not attempting to regulate or to change the legislation in regard to GM crops. To give a more complete answer on that, at the moment there are no GM crops or varieties available or cultivated in the EU and there is currently a moratorium, or certainly a logjam, and that is not going to change. However, that is a separate policy or set of regulations. These regulations on plant reproductive material do not have any implication for genetically modified crops.