Appearing before the Commons' EU Scrutiny Committee, @DavidGHFrost says he's 'not interested in arrangements that keep the [ECJ] in place with some other name for it' in a new governance system for the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Lord Frost, the UK's Brexit negotiator, sets out that he wants to see an 'arbitration mechanism', similar to the one in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, to resolve disputes over the protocol to avoid a hard border.
'No role for the court of the final arbiter of disputes,' Lord Frost adds.
On the EU's proposals to slash customs controls in Northern Ireland, Lord Frost tells MPs: 'I think there are things to welcome in the Commission's proposals and there are things that are problematic.'
'It is now understood there are problems with the current situation,' he adds. Frost says the EU's willingness to change its own laws to protect medicines supplies to NI is a 'very welcome admission'.
But Frost says the EU's proposals 'don't go far enough'. 'Gaps between us remain significant,' he adds.
On unionist concerns, Lord Frost tells the committee: 'This is one United Kingdom, and it's very important that we protect and sustain that.' He said its the Gov's position that there will always need to be an UK-EU treaty to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland.
On when Article 16 could be invoked, Lord Frost said it was 'difficult to say, and we have always been clear we don't want this situation to run on for a very long time.' He suggests the NI issue must be resolved in the 'autumn'...
Frost promises to explore 'every avenue' to reach a negotiated outcome, but suggested the EU made it harder by waiting three months to table its proposals and start discussions over the protocol.
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