On Wednesday 28 January, the members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs approved by 17 votes to 4, with one abstention, the own-initiative report by Sweden’s Jörgen Warborn (EPP) on regulatory simplification and the need for the Commission to be more ambitious in “reducing regulatory obligations for citizens and businesses”, explains a press release.
In particular, the elected representatives are asking it to “go beyond the ‘one in, one out’ principle, by repealing several legislative instruments while avoiding duplication and overlap”. They call on the Commission to “map out existing financial and non-financial legislation and administrative obligations for companies under EU and national law, to consider their costs and benefits”.
They also want “a competitiveness check to become a standard practice during the drafting of legislation and encourage the use of regulatory sandboxes”.
Elected representatives believe that EU legislation still generates a significant regulatory burden. They deplore “the Commission’s increasing failure to carry out impact assessment and stress the need for cost-benefit analysis for all major legislative initiatives”.
The text specifies that the ‘one in, one out’ principle should not be interpreted as a numerical target for legislative acts, but as a mechanism for achieving a net and tangible reduction in regulatory costs.
In this sense, the current ‘one in, one out’ approach is “inadequate”.
Link to the report: https://aeur.eu/f/kgq (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)