Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) Regulations 2006

That is the dilemma. I shall take advice and perhaps write to the noble Baroness on that, but if matters are left to member states things will be done slightly differently in each. On the other hand, if there is rigidity from Brussels, everyone will complain, ““It doesn’t suit our local circumstances””. I said that we were following a similar pattern to, for example, Ireland and the Netherlands in the way that we used the lack of a definition in the regulations. We simply transposed the same words in the directive, because that was the legally safe way of doing it. But if there is a relevant issue relating to the treatment of the regulations by different European countries, I shall gladly write to the noble Baroness.