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Originally Posted by jfman
Do we plan to raise standards? Can we guarantee this?
If it wasn’t legal it wouldn’t exist as an idea. They wouldn’t, with the best will in the world, be relying on you to discover it.
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It is illegal unless they've changed the definition of "transitional" and "limited in time", along with "unambiguously". It certainly is outside the remit of any Article 50 Withdrawal Agreement.
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Any transitional agreement must unambiguously be limited in time;
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We are unlikely to lower standards that much, if at all. Other countries have lower standards and they export to the EU.
AFAIK At the moment we can set higher standards for UK producers, but we still have to accept imports from the EU that are below that standard. Eg in the past we tried to block UHT milk from France that didn't meet our standards. The EU said we had to accept it, because it met EU standards.