Mr. Philip Kelly:

Agriculture will certainly feature in terms of market access. We have defensive and offensive interests in this area, such as dairy, beef and so on. These are areas in which we want to make breakthroughs in the US market. It will also feature in sanitary and phytosanitary regulations for plant and animal welfare.

A couple of benchmarks were put down when the mandate for the negotiations was launched, that we were not going to lessen the standards or protections in Europe so, for example, issues such as hormone beef and GMOs were ruled out from the start as not being subject to the agriculture discussions.