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Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

I am grateful to the noble Lord and I will address the specific point in a moment. The regulations exempt until 2012. The registration, which we have also discussed, is being introduced under the 2010 environmental permitting regulations, the EPRs, which we have not debated yet. They will need to be considered, so we shall have the opportunity to examine that part of the regime in due course. The regulations we are debating today merely exempt until 2012. I have answered noble Lords as far as I am able in what has been a very intensive debate. I am only too prepared to write further if that is considered necessary. I have carefully identified the participants in this debate, who have etched themselves into my memory, so I will know if they are dissatisfied and will write to them accordingly. Motion agreed.