There are too many instances “where we see many of the substantial European Commission proposals for simplification being rolled back by co-legislators,” Simplification Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told lawmakers during a European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday. “Then, of course, we will not achieve our simplification targets there.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 250 kilometers away in Luxembourg, Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath was relaying similar worries to Europe ministers, saying the executive is \u201cconcerned that the simplification ambition is often reduced\u201d during negotiations. <\/p>\n
The Commission has promised<\/a>\u00a0to cut red tape for businesses by 25 percent and save the EU economy \u20ac37.7 billion a year in annual administrative costs by 2029<\/a>. So far, it\u00a0has presented<\/a>\u00a010 simplification packages \u2014 also called ‘omnibus’ bills \u2014 reviewing laws on everything from defense and industrial permitting to agriculture and car safety, with three more proposals expected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n The bills could save businesses \u20ac15 billion in costs, the Commission estimates.<\/p>\n But a year and a half into the effort, the level of ambition on simplification is going \u201csubstantially down,\u201d warned Dombrovskis.<\/p>\n Both Dombrovskis and McGrath listed ongoing talks on the Commission’s proposals to roll back laws on chemicals, digital, environmental and pesticides rules as particularly problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are too many instances “where we see many of the substantial European Commission proposals for simplification being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[312,18,7166,3585,1401,79,80,404,1597,3608,175,288,4135,428,491,13579,1410,85,1218,714,353],"class_list":["post-21989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-agriculture","tag-brussels","tag-cancer","tag-cars","tag-chemicals","tag-companies","tag-competitiveness","tag-data-protection","tag-defense","tag-digital","tag-industry","tag-luxembourg","tag-michael-mcgrath","tag-missions","tag-negotiations","tag-pesticides","tag-pollution","tag-regulation","tag-regulatory","tag-safety","tag-valdis-dombrovskis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116767111635582445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}