Mr. John Muldowney:

It is something we are watching closely. We are allowed flexibility in the CAP strategic plan. There is a two-year lag phase for funding received. Anybody who falls behind in compliance because of a change in standards has a two-year window to become compliant and to be paid to meet that compliance. We will use this to the maximum to try to optimise it. There was a one-year lead in the rural development programme. We have been following this, which is why there were changes to reduce the stocking band introduced in the regulation. We followed this a year behind its implementation date.