Mr. Niall Ryan:

It has not come up in discussions yet. We are not privy at the minute to what member states have sent back their comments on. There were a number of meetings on this directive in November in quick succession and then, as I said, the text we are working on at the minute, referred to as rev 1, was put together by the Belgian Presidency before that finished up.

Member states were asked to comment on that text so we are at the starting point. I imagine that has been brought up to the Presidency in respect of those questions, but it has not come up in discussion to date.