Michael McGrath

So we look forward to rolling this out and it is fundamentally about ensuring that our citizens own our democracy and that they can exercise their franchise in a free and fair manner.

Look, we want to have a positive relationship with the Chinese authorities.

I had a very good visit there last week where the focus was on consumer protection and product safety and where I engaged directly with a number of ministers in the Chinese government, with the authorities and indeed with companies directly as well.

And it's part of an overall relationship between the EU and China.

We have a trading relationship at the moment that is...

quite unbalanced in favour of China and so that's why issues like market access barriers for European companies within the Chinese market is a key issue for us.

China is a partner but also a systemic rival and indeed a competitor of the European Union and so my visit was building on the summit that took place back in July that President von der Leyen attended in China and

And the issue that you've raised is not something I can comment on in any detail because no decision has been made.

We're in very close contact with the French authorities.

We have at an EU level discussion.

quite a powerful set of tools already.

And there are ongoing actions against a number of the e-commerce platforms, including those that you mentioned.

So there are clear obligations under the Digital Services Act in relation to the dissemination of a legal product online.

And we're not going to tolerate that within the European Union.

The overall message is clear.

If you want to sell into the European market, and it's a very lucrative and a very good market for e-commerce platforms to sell into, you must respect EU consumer protection rules and indeed our product safety standards as well.

Non-compliance is not an option.

And that was the clear message that I conveyed today.

in my visit last week to China.

So the report that emerged last week of these childlike sex dolls that were available on at least one and I understand more platforms is something that is completely unacceptable and we will not tolerate that within the European market.