Better regulation is central to strengthening competitiveness and supporting sustainable growth and employment. BUSINESSEUROPE priorities in this area aim at:

• improving the quality of new legislative initiatives;
• improving consultation and implementation;
• improving existing legislation.

BUSINESSEUROPE seeks to:

• promote application of better regulation principles at EU and national level;
• achieve the goal of reducing administrative burdens generated by Community legislation with 25% by 2012;
• ansure that better regulation remains a priority for the new Commission;
• better involve the European Parliament in using impact assessments and approve administrative burden reduction proposals.

Regarding impact assessments: BUSINESSEUROPE promotes impartial and comprehensive consideration of the relevance, efficiency, proportionality and cost-effectiveness of new legislation.
Regarding simplification: BUSINESSEUROPE promotes the continuous scrutiny of existing legislation to ascertain that policy aims are achieved in the least burdensome and most simple way.
Regarding administrative burden reduction: BUSINESSEUROPE promotes the measurement of all administrative costs of complying with legislation with a view to reducing these costs with quantitative targets and within fixed time frames.

Better regulation November 2009 – 2009-02479-E.pdf (835 kB) In this brochure BUSINESSEUROPE calls on the Member States, European Commission, and European Parliament to show the necessary leadership to keep efforts to improve legislation at the top of the political agenda and ensure that consideration of the relevance, efficiency, proportionality and cost-effectiveness of new legislation is a guiding principle in their work. It spells out BUSINESSEUROPE’s expectations on the following objectives: Improving the quality of new legislative initiatives; Improving consultation and implementation; Improving existing legislation.

2010

June

Smart regulation for Europe (23 June 2010) - 2010-01518-E.pdf (184 kB) Stakeholder consultation on smart regulation - BUSINESSEUROPE comments

2009

November

Better regulation: messages for the future (13 November 2009) - 2009-02484-E.pdf (263 kB) Address by Signhild Arnegard Hansen at the International Regulatory Reform Conference 2009

October

Better regulation: we will be satisfied when companies feel the 25% reduction of administrative burdens (22 October 2009) - 2009-02269-E.pdf (87 kB) Press release

February

Third strategic review of better regulationin the EU (27 February 2009) - 2009-00518-E.pdf (194 kB) BUSINESSEUROPE comments

January

Better regulation and reduction of administrative burdens (28 January 2009) - 2009-00205-E.pdf (83 kB) Letter to European Commission President Barroso

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