There would be great dislocation and there might be great disadvantages in splintering off these functions.
As with other organisations, there is a splintering-off if certain things do not happen.
The purpose of that is to avoid the splintering of agricultural holdings.
It provides an incentive for a splintering into lots of little groups, each of which will qualify for £150,000.
Because of that splintering action, it may mean that they are not able to coalesce and to take on the authority as they should.
They might be forced to expel them, which could lead to dissension and disruption in the union, and to splintering and break-away groups.
In order to study this splintering we seriously looked at the positions of all the actors involved in the controversies and attempted to reconstruct the coherence of each position.
Thus splintering is a defining characteristic.
