Ms Maria Graham:

The EU is an evolving space but my understand of what is happening is around that certainty and timelines, and not about cutting short any of the environmental assessments, but perhaps considering where there are projects of overriding public interest. It is using processes that are allowed and provided for within the directives and how they are all brought together in order to deliver on the agenda. There is certainly no sense that there is a rowing back. That is my impression so far on the environmental directives as they stand.