Brussels, 13/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - As part of the conclusion to his mandate on Tuesday 14 October, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, was preparing to present a damning report on how best to introduce legislation at a European level and subsequently make savings. Deregulation will take pride of place, with the proposal to establish key targets for reducing the administrative burden.
The president of the European Commission will present this report with Edmund Stoiber, the president of the high level group in charge of reducing the administrative burden, responsible for steering the work forward on this task. The conclusions incorporated in the report have in fact been criticised within the group itself by almost a third of its members. These members subsequently intend to present their counter report detailing the shortcomings in the recommendations to the Commission.
One source close to the dossier explained that by highlighting the benefits of the quotas for reducing legislative costs, the 'Stoiber' report is implicitly supporting a “one in, one out” system”. This source is warning against deregulation because it claims that just because a law is expensive it does not mean that it is superfluous. (MD)