Mr. Patrick Rochford:

The regional aid guidelines, for which our Department is responsible, are a Commission competence. Accordingly, there is not a specific working group in which we can influence these or vote them down. The Commission produces a non-paper and then a draft proposal. At that stage, there can be some influence. The proposal is then adopted through the College of Commissioners. We do not produce a regulatory impact assessment because it is not a directive that we have direct control of in terms of implementing it. We just have to react as best we can.