Mr. Ray Doyle:

The solution is for all vaccines for farmed animals to be included in the protocol. The protocol must be simplified because it is very onerous; too onerous for what it is. Again, the regulation wants to gather data to provide the rationale for prescribing these products. We fully endorse that; that is what we want to do. The statutory instrument needs to be rewritten to encompass what I have said about non-therapeutic use. It needs the addition of all vaccines. We want to ramp up the sales of vaccines and decrease our sales of antiparasitics, as per the regulation itself. The regulation itself, Regulation (EU) 2019/6, which this statutory instrument is supposed to transpose, is supposed to increase competitiveness and commercialisation. It is reducing it in its current format. It is supposed to maintain supply routes of all products and maximise the availability but, and I quote directly, it is reducing it. This statutory instrument as written is contravening two objectives - three at points - that Regulation (EU) 2019/6 sets out to achieve.