?That sounds good. Senator Cherry, please proceed. Senator CHERRY ?Coming back to the issue of the environment, are you operating under any policy instructions from government as to what is and is not the environment for the purposes of this act? Dr Meek ?No, the definition of the environment that we use is the one that is in the Gene Technology Act. Senator CHERRY ?But that does not exclude the notion of a neighbouring farm environment, for example? Dr Meek ?It would only include a neighbouring farm environment in the context of whether or not there was a risk to human health and safety in the environment. If the risk to the farm was an economic one then it would be outside of the definition of the environment. Senator CHERRY ?But if a farmer is of the view that contamination of their crop with a GM crop changes their farm ecosystem, then is that not an environmental issue rather than an economic one? You are saying it is an economic one but the farmer may regard that as an environmental one. Dr Meek ?What the farmer may regard his farm situation to be and what I have to look at, which is the environment as a whole, may be two different things. It is very often the case that a farmer may well regard it as an impact but it is actually about the marketability of the crop they are growing on their particular paddock. When it comes down to