Ms Rachel Minch:

To be fair, we are looking more closely at what is being proposed as opposed to some of the quite challenging European Court of Justice decisions around the area so I would not be able to provide a definitive view or indeed whether we can provide a definitive view, which is a case for not fiddling around with the current provisions because it is not always clear what EU law requires. However, there is a concern that, whatever about the materially or directly affected requirement, insofar as you get standing through public participation that you are limited to the points the Deputy raised before the decision maker. That is a particular issue. Also, as I mentioned before there is also the requirements around what environmental non-governmental organisations, ENGOs, need to satisfy as well.