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Mr Harris sought a legal opinion from Stephen Tromans QC, one of the country s leading environmental lawyers, which he has sent to EA chief executive Sir James Bevan. It says the EA has a legal duty to take appropriate steps to avoid damaging European sites, not to wait to for evidence to be presented to it of damage having taken place , and that it is already fully aware that abstraction is threatening wider areas . Mr Tromans concludes the current Restoring Sustainable Abstraction (RSA) exercise, as it only assesses three of the many SSSIs (sites of special scientific interest) which underpin protected designations across the Broads, is currently limited in ways which cannot be legally justified .

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