There are controls, but a lot of the existing regulation doesn't limit uplands development.

The big problem, and one of the reasons why change is required, is, in actual fact, the poor compliance with the existing regulation.

In order to improve the situation, I believe that intervention in the existing regulation is inevitable.

However, we need the improvements in the existing regulation.

Certain sectors will continue, however, to be subject to the existing regulation based on total harmonisation.

Secondly, the annexes to the existing regulation can only be amended by the Council.

The report also recommends that other aspects of drivers' work should be included in the field covered by the existing regulation.

Firstly, the rules of eligibility were not clear in the existing regulation.

For the time being we will work on the basis of the existing regulation.

That would require changing an existing regulation, he added.