I have not had time to expand on the matter of bureaucracy but there is a distinction between what the Council decides and implementation. The European free range hen is a very odd animal. The European free range hen on a farm in County Cork leaves its dormitory and goes to a field. At the end of the day it comes back and because it passed some concrete on the way from where it slept to where it fed and back again, it cannot be regarded as a free range hen.