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• 2007/09/04 Text adopted by Parliament, single reading
  • T6-0365/2007 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drawn up Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, IT) in response to the Commission working document entitled "First progress report on the strategy for the simplification of the regulatory environment".  It urged the Commission to place greater emphasis on implementation, enforcement and evaluation of Community legislation, as an essential part of the "better regulation" process. It welcomed the fact that, for the first time, the simplification initiatives have been included in the Commission's legislative and work programme for 2007, in confirmation of the political priority to be given to the simplification strategy. Parliament called on the Commission systematically to include from now on, the simplification initiatives in a specific part of the legislative and work programme, to indicate what priority it intends to give to each individual simplification initiative and to set out its simplification proposals in its annual policy strategy at the start of the annual legislative programming process. The Commission must avoid the proliferation of documents containing lists of simplification initiatives, in order to have as clear a reference framework as possible. Parliament suggested that Parliament, the Commission and the Council should conclude an interinstitutional agreement on an accelerated working method for simplification measures as a whole, and stressed the vital importance of cooperation between the Community institutions as a prerequisite for the success of any simplification strategy. In accordance with the terms of such an agreement, Parliament, together with the Council and the Commission, could set up special ad hoc structures with the precise aim of promoting simplification. On codification, the Commission must address the difficulties relating to translation and prevent the submission of new legislative proposals from having a negative impact on the codification initiatives, thereby undermining the entire simplification process. Parliament asked the Commission to be consistent and refrain from setting out in its legislative and work programme plans for codification on the same topics as those in relation to which it intends to submit substantive legislative proposals. It proposed that the Commission once and for all adopt recasting as a standard legislative technique so that, for each initiative, the text can be available in its entirety, including where there are specific amendments. This would provide a clear indication of the new parts and those which are unchanged, thereby increasing the legibility of Community legislation. Where recasting is impossible, the codification of the legislative area concerned should be the standard legislative technique to be carried out within a six-month time-frame. Parliament welcomed the commitment by the Commission to develop a solid set of methodologies for the work of simplification. It called on the Commission to persist in consulting the interested parties, for instance by extending to other sectors the initiatives already announced concerning agriculture and fisheries and by strengthening the measures it intends to adopt in this regard in the field of company law and copyright. The Commission was encouraged to develop further sector-specific analyses and the measurement of the administrative burdens generated by existing Community legislation. The traditional legislative instruments should continue to be used as a general rule in order to attain the objectives laid down in the Treaty, with co-regulation and self-regulation supplementing or replacing legislative measures where these methods make improvements of equivalent or broader scope than legislation can provide. Any use of alternative regulatory arrangements should be in compliance with the Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making. Parliament went on to state that the Commission must make every effort to ensure that the process being promoted at European level to simplify regulation is not undermined at national level by internal rules or technical barriers. The Commission should guide and monitor this process also at national level, for instance by acting as a centre for collecting and disseminating the best practices developed within the EU and its Member States and, not least, responding to indications from stakeholders. Lastly, it emphasised that regular impact assessments play a key role in the simplification process and that such assessments should be considered by the Council and Parliament when amendments are made to a proposal during the legislative process.

  • Results of vote in Parliament
• 2007/09/04 Commission response to text adopted in plenary
  • SP(2007)5401
  • SP(2007)5402
  • DG Legal Service, BARROSO José Manuel
• 2007/09/03 Debate in Parliament
• 2007/07/02 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A6-0271/2007
• 2007/07/02 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A6-0271/2007
• 2007/06/25 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • AFCO
  • AFET
  • AGRI
  • BUDG
  • CONT
  • CULT
  • DEVE
  • ECON
  • EMPL
  • ENVI OUZKÝ Miroslav PPE-DE
  • FEMM
  • IMCO
  • INTA
  • ITRE
  • JURI JURI/6/48537 GARGANI Giuseppe PPE-DE
  • LIBE
  • PECH
  • PETI
  • REGI
  • TRAN
• 2007/04/26 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • AFCO
  • AFET
  • AGRI
  • BUDG
  • CONT
  • CULT
  • DEVE
  • ECON
  • EMPL
  • ENVI OUZKÝ Miroslav PPE-DE
  • FEMM
  • IMCO
  • INTA
  • ITRE
  • JURI JURI/6/48537 GARGANI Giuseppe PPE-DE
  • LIBE
  • PECH
  • PETI
  • REGI
  • TRAN
• 2007/04/19 Committee draft report
  • PE388.366
• 2006/11/14 Non-legislative basic document published
  • COM(2006)0690

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2006)0690
• Committee draft report: PE388.366
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0271/2007
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0271/2007
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0365/2007
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2007)5401
• Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2007)5402

History

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