The European Commission’s ‘FitforFuture’ platform selected fifteen initiatives on Thursday 4 March with the aim of simplifying EU legislation, cutting red tape and responding to new and emerging challenges.
This platform will publish opinions for the EU institution on the 15 selected themes, covering areas such as competition, finance, health, environment, statistics, transport, customs and the internal market. When drawing up its opinions, the platform will take into account the following principles: - the digital transition of businesses and the public sector ; - striking the right balance between transparency and administrative burden in the procedures related to labelling, authorisations and reporting obligations; - simplifying EU law.
“It is more important than ever to make things simpler, because we are trying to revive the European economy hit by the Covid-19 pandemic”, said the Vice-President of the European Commission, Maroš Šefčovič, in a statement.
Every citizen and stakeholder can react and give their opinion until the end of April.
The ‘FitforFuture’ platform brings together representatives of national, regional and local authorities, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee as well as stakeholders with practical experience in implementing EU legislation.
The Committee of the Regions, represented on the platform by Mark Speich (EPP, Germany), Anne Karjalainen (S&D, Finland) and Ulrika Landergren (Renew Europe, Sweden), welcomed the fact that its requests to include legislation in the areas of public procurement, air quality, cross-border health and State Aid in the analysis were accepted. On Wednesday, it launched its ‘Regional Hubs 2.0’ to monitor the implementation of EU law on the ground and to make the voice of local players heard in the evaluation of European policies (see EUROPE 12670/25).
See the fifteen pieces of legislation concerned: https://bit.ly/2PBajy6
Take part in the discussion: http://bit.ly/3bj4w8P (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)