Barnier: 'UK wants to diverge and the point for us is very simple - what will become this divergence? If it remains reasonable - controlled by who? - or if it becomes a tool for dumping against us. Social, environmental, consumer rights, fiscal dumping, we have to take care...
...I'm not speaking about the regulatory framework because if the UK wants to export products in the Single Market necessarily each product will have to respect the norms and standards we have implemented in the EU. For instance chlorinated chicken of the US will never enter...
...I'm speaking of the way to produce these products and if there is divergence with our rules for social rights, environmental rights, we have to be careful because that is the point where clearly the integrity of the Single Market is at stake and we have to protect ourselves...
...'The level of access for the British products to our markets will be proportionate to the level of ambition of common agreement on these rules and these standards.'
