Ms Christine Tacon:

I should make it clear - I might make it sound very simplistic - that my role is just as a regulator. I literally have the code and I have the designated retailers. The areas Deputy McConalogue is talking about are much more to do with policy. Although my position is sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, BEIS, I act totally independently from it. I do not know what BEIS is working on. Nobody has asked me about this area, and I feel fairly confident in saying that I do not think anybody is expecting that the European Union directive is going to be transposed to the United Kingdom. It has certainly not been mentioned to me, but it would not be my area of work.