The cumulative effect is reaching a point where it is strangling business and undermining people's respect for the law. I turn to some specifics. Regulation 3 is the key regulation. Friend back to the beginning of his speech, when he said that the reason for the regulations was lobbying. My right hon.
Friend makes a valuable point.
I hope that the Minister will set out what meetings and representations he and his Department have made to Directorates-General III at the European Commission, from whence the regulations emanated. There is also concern that the period of epithelisation has not been specified. It is an important point because the rules for the post-epithelisation period are much less draconian and extreme than those that apply during epithelisation. The biggest concern about these provisions relates to high-grade surgical quality stainless steel, such as 316L as it is known in the business. Such compounds contain 12 to 18 per cent.