I think we're fairly happy with the timelines. The real question, of course, is which way these assessments are going to tip or how precautionary we're going to be when we're making these decisions. How protective are we going to be in making these decisions? In particular, in the context of consumer products, we're concerned about a trend towards exempting consumer products as one of the things from the prohibition. For instance, when PFOS was gazetted to be prohibited, the imported consumer products were exempted, and that's exactly where we would think there would be a problem if there was one.
On December 11th, 2006. See this statement in context.