“Delivering impactful policies to put the European economy back on track is more urgent than ever”, stated the employers’ organisation BusinessEurope in a document addressed to the future Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU, adopted in Dublin on Friday 22 May.
The organisation recommends ten key areas for boosting competitiveness. In particular, it calls for “simplifying complex European regulations, guaranteeing Member States' ownership of the single market, simplifying the creation and operation of businesses, simplifying the recognition of professional qualifications, simplifying the establishment of standards and simplifying regulations on packaging, labelling and waste”. There is also a need to “simplify product regulations and guarantee their conformity, national civil service regulations, the posting of workers, and simplify territorial supply constraints”.
Businesses are not yet feeling the effects of the reduction in the regulatory burden, highlights BusinessEurope, reiterating its call for “an immediate moratorium on all new regulatory burdens, including secondary legislation”, and for “the withdrawal of pending binding proposals, such as the Green Claims Directive and Late Payment Regulation”.
It is also a question of “carefully calibrating the introduction of a ‘European preference’ in public procurement and public support schemes in the context of the Industrial Accelerator Act”. And using the forthcoming legislative proposal on energy taxation and network charges to reduce the cost of industrial electricity.
Link to the statement: https://aeur.eu/f/m02 (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)