Mr. Conor Linehan:

It is a very interesting question. The incorporation requirement, the criteria and so on come up throughout the Bill in different contexts. However, I do not read section 249, which relates to judicial review and in which this issue comes up, as meaning that, for the purposes of raising points on European environmental law, a group is required to have incorporated under the criteria. Rather, a pre-existing company meeting those criteria will be deemed to have sufficient interest. It is something that would be regarded as evidencing sufficient interest.