Mr. Tom Moran:

Good progress is being made in the discussions on that among the working groups and at the Council. The danger with defining an active farmer is that we could tie ourselves up in such bureaucracy, by linking it to income and so on, that it would make a nonsense of it. One idea is that there would be a negative list excluding airports, golf clubs and so on, but that is at the extreme of the madness. It would exclude certain activities. If we can get to a position at which we have a negative list and a reasonable approach to the definition of an active farmer, it is something that will work well.