Mr. John Melvin:

The European Parliament introduced the legislation requiring member states to meet the n-1 criterion. That is EU law. That was introduced when the UK was part of the EU. Put simply, as the UK is no longer part of the EU and that law still stands, we do not meet the n-1 standard. The presence or absence of connected systems agreements does not change the fact that under the particular regulation, we can no longer report that we meet the n-1 criterion on a regional basis.