On Wednesday 19 February, the ambassadors of the Member States to the European Union (Coreper I) validated the draft conclusions prepared by the Croatian Presidency of the EU Council on ‘better regulation’ for the next ‘Competitiveness’ Council, but not without a discussion on the ‘one in, one out’ principle.
The Croatian Presidency had left in square brackets a passage (paragraph 11) essentially encouraging the Commission to ensure that compliance costs and administrative...