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The member makes his point clearly and cogently. We have to take account of the diversity of our island communities, and he is quite right to identify that the contexts differ.
Instead of giving people the opportunity to lay down roots and to stop their life being on hold, it is always considered as a temporary stay, even if that can often be quite long term.
The case-marking guidelines are reviewed to take account of sentencing trends and to ensure that prosecution policy properly takes account of the particular concerns about certain crimes in our society.
However, on your specific question, it is not the treaty that lays down the common fisheries policy, the quotas and so on— It is the acquis communautaire.
As we said in the submission, in such a situation we have to take into account the intention at the time of planting and how the trees have been managed.