Mr. Tom Medlycott:

There has not been detailed consideration of that yet. As Mr. Ryan says, a lot of these things are still for discussion. At the last meeting on Monday, it came out from the Commission that there could be more than one competent authority in each district, so there may be a competent authority for some elements of the directive and then another competent authority for other elements. As well as the things we are talking about today related to agriculture, contaminated sites are also covered within the directive, so that area will probably not fall within the Department of agriculture's remit. It is more likely to be for the EPA or the Department of the environment. They might be the competent authority for that part and our Department might be the competent authority for the parts related to agriculture but we have not got into detailed discussions on that, as I said. The directive is still at an early stage.