Дэвид Дэвис: в основном, ЕС должен быть уверен, что Великобритания не понизит свои стандарты, чтобы сбить цену. "Они должны понимать это, выходя из их собственных механизмов разрешения споров"

Дэвид Дэвис: Комиссия оказывает давление с помощью времени, в качестве тактики на переговорах

Davis: When the Joint Report said "full alignment" that did not relate to the whole of the UK. It related to the North-South strands

Davis: the Joint Report wasn't legally binding. It not a legal treaty yet. Says there was uproar when he said that back in December

Davis: (on Coveneys understanding of full alignment). The previous words in the Joint Report [which were removed] related to harmonisation, unacceptable to us. We'll have to address this for each of the NS strands: agriculture for example: Ireland is a single epidemiological unit

Davis: we're accutely conscious of those things. It was us, at the beginning, who said we need to put Ireland into the Withdrawal Agreement

Davis: accepts that you can take a prescription to a pharmacy on the other side of the Irish border, and vice versa, thanks to a 2011 EU directive

Дэвид Дэвис: некоторые из вариантов, которые мы рассматриваем, действительно выполнимы властью Северной Ирландии

Дэвид Дэвис: за последние 20 лет в технологии произошли огромные изменения. После теракта 9/11 появились новые проблемы с безопасностью, все технологии устарели, но сегодня это не так: электронное извещение широко используется

Дэвид Дэвис: ЕС не ведет переговоры о будущем партнерстве, поэтому мы не смогли поговорить о тестировании технологии

Davis: it doesn't matter what it is, a camera, a poll, a building The existing border is done by intelligence etc, using including ANPR cameras back in Belfast

Дэвид Дэвис: предполагаю, что у вас может быть инфраструктура, только не на границе

Дэвид Дэвис: я не могу представить обстоятельства, при которых Ирландия установила бы жесткую границу. Наша задача - этого избежать

Дэвид Дэвис: вы можете быть очень дружелюбными с людьми, но не поддерживать их (когда его спросили об отношениях с министром иностранных дел Ирландии, с которым он не встречался, и о Саймоне Ковни - с кем встречался)

Davis: the two proposals, ie technology + the customs partnership, keeping the common external tariff around the UK and then rebating the EU, the Commission did push back on both

Дэвид Дэвис: несомненно существует ряд экономических вопросов, относительно границы Ирландии. Это одна из вещей, которую необходимо разрешить, но в настоящий момент есть граница. Её не видно, но она работает

Дэвид Дэвис: говоря об Ирландии, мы крайне заинтересованы в том, чтобы правильно разрешить вопрос энергетики

Davis: if you're a small business you probably don't send the product youself, you'll use an intermediary. If you *do*, then you shd be capable of being an Authorised Economic Operator [ie, trusted trader]

Davis: in the event we get an FTA there will be no tariffs [ie between North and South]. It won't be a tariff issue, it will be a regulatory + rules of origin issue. That's a single market issue, not a customs union issue

Дэвид Дэвис: в Северной Ирландии уже существует граница: налоги, акцизы, НДС, валюта и суд

Davis: we will make these arguments when it comes to the primary legislation [ie, despite all the ammendments over the customs union]

Davis: in the last 20 years exports to the UK have going 60pc 40pc to the EU to 40 - 60. Being outside the CU gives us our own commercial policy, to open up those export markets

Дэвис Дэвис: вы не контролируете свои границы, если вы находитесь в таможенном союзе

Davis: we view leaving the EU as leaving the SM and CU. That's what the British people were told in the referendum by both sides of the arguement. Cameron, Osborne, Johnson, Gove all said that's what it means

Davis: if we had tried to go beyond December 2020 (for the transition) we'd have been in a new MFF, ie seven year budget. And the bill for that would have been quite big

Davis: while the economic partnership won't bite until January 1 2021 we want to get the security and defence partnership as soon as we can

Davis: We haven't yet concluded the legal text, so the money from the exit bill (could) be leveraged in the negotiations

Davis: Bavaria has an enormous trade with us, whether BMWs, Airbuses or agricultural products. It's part of my task to ensure that each country is aware of their own exposure to Brexit

Davis: there are countries, or even provinces, for whom Brexit is of existential importants. The Benelux countries for example. A hard brexit wd affect their economies by 3-4pc

Davis: Brexit is not the priority of the vast majority of the 27 as it is here

Davis: We are starting the negotiations on the future relationship right now. But the signature of the future framework treaty will happen after March because we won't be a third country till then. I hope to conclude the negotiations by then - then sign after

Davis: We'll have a tustle over financial services and services more generally. Professional qualifications will be an issue

Davis: Ireland looked like it was almost resolved in the latter part of last year

Davis: Nothing keeps me awake at night, I can tell you

Davis: we could well be looking at multiple dispute resolution mechanism

Davis: we're interested in being part of the EU aviation safety agency. The Swiss can certify an aircraft, judgements on safety etc, that's negotiated in a Swiss court - but we'll struggle to have something like that

Davis: We'll have to a choice of forum for dispute: if it's a data issue then it would be the ECJ (eg, someone in the EU saying they don't want the Brits to have their data)

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: dispute resolution mechanism post Brexit needs to impartial, can't be the ECJ or the Supreme Court. EU wants the ECJ to do it, we don't

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: we're aiming for October (for agreement on outstanding issues), it was not laid out in March that June was the deadline. The Commission likes to put time pressure on us. We can't guarantee June

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: the transition period is not for further negotiation, we have to have the future trade agreement nailed down before it starts. We need a substantive agreement in October in terms of the political declaration

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: Northen Ireland is clearly highly controversial. We stand by the words of the Joint Report in December but we don't agree with the Commission's interpretation of it. We're still working on that

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