As I made clear at the outset, the Bill is very technical in character. However, it touches on a huge range of areas. It seeks to amend the European Communities Act, 1972, by adding relevant sections from the Treaty of Nice to the list of European Union treaties set out in the Act. There have been similar amendments in all the other cases where we have ratified treaties. This is a well tried and proven approach. Assuming that we deposit our instrument of ratification in December, the Treaty of Nice will, as a result of the work we are doing here, finally take effect on 1 February 2003.