Thank you.
The difficulty with this particular amendment is that it conflates two issues. The eight-year stockpile destruction in the convention speaks to stockpiles held by state's parties, whereas the bill itself deals with possession by individuals. It implements the criminal law aspect that is the state's implementation by assigning individual criminal liabilities to certain acts and activities. That is what the criminal law does. So the eight-year limitation which starts with entry into force of the convention for a given state refers to that state's obligation, not to an individual obligation. I think that is what the difficulty here is. I certainly would agree with my colleague from justice that since we have a much stronger, broader prohibition on possession already, this might cause confusion in the court trying to interpret which provision would apply, and might give rise to unintended defences saying, well, I'm still within the eight-year period, therefore, you can't convict me of possession. I think that it would not strengthen the bill. It would probably rather weaken it.