Mr. Joe Condon:

Article 4 is not referencing agricultural areas of activity. If we move peatlands into Article 4, we will lose the agricultural activity in that area and the agricultural area status.

It is critical that some of the habitats under Article 9, in particular, heathlands, blanket bog and upland grasslands are considered as agricultural ecosystems not as habitats. There is probably a pathway to achieving that but definitely moving those significant areas of land into Article 4 is a massive land use change. Those lands will not come into agricultural activity or the agricultural area. That is my understanding of it.