Examples of decommissioning

• Without effective vessel resale markets or decommissioning grants fishing incomes can fall to very low levels before participants leave the fishery.

• This, we are told, involves a decommissioning scheme costing £80 million.

• The decommissioning of nuclear reactors is now an ongoing operation throughout the world as useful and safe lifespan comes to an end.

• Vessel decommissioning, as required by effort reduction programs, would inflict a huge loss on fishery owners.

• Removing the boats with the highest capacity first would involve the minimum decommissioning (in terms of boat numbers) and leave the largest fleet size that could take the target catch.

• As far as other countries are concerned, we all recognise that the problem of decommissioning is not a local or even a national one but a global concern.

• Having agreed the rules of procedure and agenda for the opening plenary the talks are now addressing the issue of decommissioning.

• Calculations that have been made indicate that there is advantage in allowing radioactivity to decay before decommissioning is undertaken.

• However, it is unsustainable because of problems with decommissioning nuclear power stations and disposing of wastes.

• Some people want to treat decommissioning as a matter that can simply be pre-emptively imposed on the paramilitaries.

• The first is for the paramilitaries to make a start to decommissioning before all-party negotiations.

• I agree that we must address the decommissioning issue across the board, and that includes loyalist paramilitaries.

• Of course, we hope that the loyalist paramilitaries will respond by decommissioning arms themselves.

• Self-evidently the best way to generate the necessary confidence is for the paramilitaries to make a start to the decommissioning process.

• It is instructive to remember that this time last year the talks participants were still deadlocked on the decommissioning question.