Clear from de Rynck at LSE that Commission guidelines will be tough. Says mutual recognition and equivalence regimes can work only within single market, EP involvement and overarching role of ECJ. This means pretty firm rejection of May baskets idea.
Commission will also oppose May plan for special new joint and equal legal body for dispute resolution. De Rynck spoke of needing a single legal framework for the single market, meaning no option for Parliament to reject future rules
Finally Commission will insist on some form of legal status for option C, the fallback for Irish border on the argument that it is for UK to offer workable alternative to problem created by Brexit: and options A and B are unlikely to be ready and agreed by October
And really finally he insists that European business thinks the costs of potentially unravelling the single market far outweigh possible loss of exports to UK market: hence importance of EU27 unity. I wonder
