COM(2014)368 - Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT): State of Play and Outlook

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Legal instrument	Communication
Decision making procedure	Own-initiative procedure (INI)
reference by COM-number75	COM(2014)368
Additional COM-numbers	SWD(2014)192
procedure number77	2014/2150(INI)
CELEX number78	52014DC0368

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• 1. 

  COM(2013)685final of 2 October 2013.
  
   
• 2. 

  COM(2013)721
  
   
• 3. 

  COM(2013)794.
  
   
• 4. 

  The proposal for a Single-Member Company adopted on 9 April 2014 takes up substantial elements of this earlier proposal.
  
   
• 5. 

  This concerned the areas of occupational safety and health for hairdressers, muscular skeletal disorders, environmental tobacco smoke and carcinogens and mutagens.
  
   
• 6. 

  This includes legislation on the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations, the scientific cooperation on questions relating to food, steel statistics, the cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units and retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles.
  
   
• 7. 

  ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme
  
   
• 8. 

  Regulation 1169/2011 in application from December 2014 with the exception of mandatory nutrition labelling which will start to apply from December 2016.
  
   
• 9. 

  Exemptions cover i.e. food sold directly from the farm or small local retailers. Lighter regimes are applied in other cases relevant to SMEs, i.e. nutrition information can be based on calculation from generally established and accepted data avoiding costly laboratory analysis.
  
   
• 10. 

  Directive 2013/55/EU published on 28 December 2013 (OJ-L354).
  
   
• 11. 

  Commission Delegated Regulation 862/2012
  
   
• 12. 

  Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 February 2014 on tachographs in road transport, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport.
  
   
• 13. 

  Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU: The adoption of self-declarations as preliminary evidence and the winning bidder approach to documentary evidence would reduce administrative burdens associated with public tenders by 80%. See also the impact assessment: -->
   
• 14. 

  See section III below: A new architecture for EU business statistics.
  
   
• 15. 

  Regulation 608/2013.
  
   
• 16. 

  Directive 2012/19/EU.
  
   
• 17. 

  Directive 2006/46/EC.
  
   
• 18. 

  (1) Allowing more SMEs to benefit from simplified accounting/auditing regimes - Directive 2006/46/EC of 14 June 2006; (2) Allowing Member States to exempt micro enterprises from certain provisions of the accounting directives - Directive 2012/6/EU of 14 March 2012; (3) Simplifying and streamlining the notification system for shipments of waste - Commission letter of recommendation to Member States of July 2010; (4) Only the winning enterprise needs to submit the documents demonstrating suitability as a tenderer in a procurement procedure
   
• 19. 

  The objective of the initiative is to reduce obstacles to cross border trade and safeguard Member
   
• 20. 

  Other initiatives include the review of legislation on nuclear issues, a proposal in the area of emergency travel documents and the review of Regulations on the import of textile products and of dual-use items.
  
   
• 21. 

  COM(2008)600/4
  
   
• 22. 

  Following an invitation by Council in December 2013 to report on the application of the principle of mutual recognition by mid-2015 (see: www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs).
  
   
• 23. 

  Other areas include marketing standards for veal, labelling rules for beef, the programme for outermost regions, the Fuel Quality Directive (once transposed and fully implemented), oil stocks, the Fisheries Control Regulation, nuclear safety, standardization, asbestos
   
• 24. 

  COM(2013)49 accompanied by SWD(2013)25.
  
   
• 25. 

  Final reports available at ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/evaluation
  
   
• 26. 

  ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/index_en
  
   
• 27. 

  Significant advances have been made in the streamlining of previously unlinked reporting streams in the field of water (between the Marine Strategy Directive, the Water Framework Directive and the Habitats and Birds Directives), such that data and information need only be reported once to meet the requirements set out under the various Directives, significantly reducing administrative burden. The results of a separate pilot exercise to reduce reporting requirements in the area of urban waste water will lead to simpler and more effective reporting requirements.
  
   
• 28. 

  In 2013, the Commission carried out a screening exercise on reporting obligations in the areas of energy and cohesion policy in order to simplify and streamline requirements. In the area of energy alone, this exercise allowed 43 reporting obligations to be merged into 14.
  
   
• 29. 

  Contributions have notably been received by Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
  
   
• 30. 

  COM(2013)794.
  
   
• 31. 

  The proposal for a Single-Member Company adopted on 9 April 2014 takes up substantial elements of this earlier proposal.
  
   
• 32. 

  Other proposals withdrawn under REFIT included proposals regarding information to the general public on medicinal products, for a regulation on European statistics on safety from crime, on the legal protection of designs, the Community patent (proposal converted into enhanced cooperation) and on driving licenses with the functionality of a driver card.
  
   
• 33. 

  This concerned the areas of occupational safety and health for hairdressers, muscular skeletal disorders, environmental tobacco smoke and carcinogens and mutagens.
  
   
• 34. 

  This includes legislation on the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations, the scientific cooperation on questions relating to food, steel statistics, the cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units and retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles.
  
   
• 35. 

  This work is followed by the High Level Group on Better Regulation containing national regulatory experts. This group works with the Commission to review and develop the Smart Regulation agenda at the EU and national level.
  
   
• 36. 

  ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme
  
   
• 37. 

  Regulation 1169/2011 in application from December 2014 with the exception of mandatory nutrition labelling which will start to apply from December 2016.
  
   
• 38. 

  COM(2013)685final of 2 October 2013.
  
   
• 39. 

  COM(2013)721
  
   
• 40. 

  COM(2013)794.
  
   
• 41. 

  The proposal for a Single-Member Company adopted on 9 April 2014 takes up substantial elements of this earlier proposal.
  
   
• 42. 

  This concerned the areas of occupational safety and health for hairdressers, muscular skeletal disorders, environmental tobacco smoke and carcinogens and mutagens.
  
   
• 43. 

  This includes legislation on the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations, the scientific cooperation on questions relating to food, steel statistics, the cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units and retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles.
  
   
• 44. 

  ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme
  
   
• 45. 

  Regulation 1169/2011 in application from December 2014 with the exception of mandatory nutrition labelling which will start to apply from December 2016.
  
   
• 46. 

  Exemptions cover i.e. food sold directly from the farm or small local retailers. Lighter regimes are applied in other cases relevant to SMEs, i.e. nutrition information can be based on calculation from generally established and accepted data avoiding costly laboratory analysis.
  
   
• 47. 

  Directive 2013/55/EU published on 28 December 2013 (OJ-L354).
  
   
• 48. 

  Commission Delegated Regulation 862/2012
  
   
• 49. 

  Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 February 2014 on tachographs in road transport, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport.
  
   
• 50. 

  Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU: The adoption of self-declarations as preliminary evidence and the winning bidder approach to documentary evidence would reduce administrative burdens associated with public tenders by 80%. See also the impact assessment: -->
   
• 51. 

  See section III below: A new architecture for EU business statistics.
  
   
• 52. 

  Regulation 608/2013.
  
   
• 53. 

  Directive 2012/19/EU.
  
   
• 54. 

  Directive 2006/46/EC.
  
   
• 55. 

  (1) Allowing more SMEs to benefit from simplified accounting/auditing regimes - Directive 2006/46/EC of 14 June 2006; (2) Allowing Member States to exempt micro enterprises from certain provisions of the accounting directives - Directive 2012/6/EU of 14 March 2012; (3) Simplifying and streamlining the notification system for shipments of waste - Commission letter of recommendation to Member States of July 2010; (4) Only the winning enterprise needs to submit the documents demonstrating suitability as a tenderer in a procurement procedure
   
• 56. 

  The objective of the initiative is to reduce obstacles to cross border trade and safeguard Member
   
• 57. 

  Other initiatives include the review of legislation on nuclear issues, a proposal in the area of emergency travel documents and the review of Regulations on the import of textile products and of dual-use items.
  
   
• 58. 

  COM(2008)600/4
  
   
• 59. 

  Following an invitation by Council in December 2013 to report on the application of the principle of mutual recognition by mid-2015 (see: www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs).
  
   
• 60. 

  Other areas include marketing standards for veal, labelling rules for beef, the programme for outermost regions, the Fuel Quality Directive (once transposed and fully implemented), oil stocks, the Fisheries Control Regulation, nuclear safety, standardization, asbestos
   
• 61. 

  COM(2013)49 accompanied by SWD(2013)25.
  
   
• 62. 

  Final reports available at ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/evaluation
  
   
• 63. 

  ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/index_en
  
   
• 64. 

  Significant advances have been made in the streamlining of previously unlinked reporting streams in the field of water (between the Marine Strategy Directive, the Water Framework Directive and the Habitats and Birds Directives), such that data and information need only be reported once to meet the requirements set out under the various Directives, significantly reducing administrative burden. The results of a separate pilot exercise to reduce reporting requirements in the area of urban waste water will lead to simpler and more effective reporting requirements.
  
   
• 65. 

  In 2013, the Commission carried out a screening exercise on reporting obligations in the areas of energy and cohesion policy in order to simplify and streamline requirements. In the area of energy alone, this exercise allowed 43 reporting obligations to be merged into 14.
  
   
• 66. 

  Contributions have notably been received by Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
  
   
• 67. 

  COM(2013)794.
  
   
• 68. 

  The proposal for a Single-Member Company adopted on 9 April 2014 takes up substantial elements of this earlier proposal.
  
   
• 69. 

  Other proposals withdrawn under REFIT included proposals regarding information to the general public on medicinal products, for a regulation on European statistics on safety from crime, on the legal protection of designs, the Community patent (proposal converted into enhanced cooperation) and on driving licenses with the functionality of a driver card.
  
   
• 70. 

  This concerned the areas of occupational safety and health for hairdressers, muscular skeletal disorders, environmental tobacco smoke and carcinogens and mutagens.
  
   
• 71. 

  This includes legislation on the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations, the scientific cooperation on questions relating to food, steel statistics, the cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units and retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles.
  
   
• 72. 

  This work is followed by the High Level Group on Better Regulation containing national regulatory experts. This group works with the Commission to review and develop the Smart Regulation agenda at the EU and national level.
  
   
• 73. 

  ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme
  
   
• 74. 

  Regulation 1169/2011 in application from December 2014 with the exception of mandatory nutrition labelling which will start to apply from December 2016.
  
   
• 75. 

  De Europese Commissie kent nummers toe aan officiële documenten van de Europese Unie. De Commissie maakt onderscheid in een aantal typen documenten door middel van het toekennen van verschillende nummerseries. Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op het soort document en/of de instelling van de Unie van wie het document afkomstig is.
   
• 76. 

  De Raad van de Europese Unie kent aan wetgevingsdossiers een uniek toe. Dit nummer bestaat uit een vijfcijferig volgnummer gevolgd door een schuine streep met de laatste twee cijfers van het jaartal, bijvoorbeeld 12345/00 - een document met nummer 12345 uit het jaar 2000.
   
• 77. 

  Het interinstitutionele nummer is een nummerreeks die binnen de Europese Unie toegekend wordt aan voorstellen voor regelgeving van de Europese Commissie.
  Binnen de Europese Unie worden nog een aantal andere nummerseries gebruikt. Iedere instelling heeft één of meerdere sets documenten met ieder een eigen nummering. Die reeksen komen niet overeen met elkaar of het interinstitutioneel nummer.
   
• 78. 

  Deze databank van de Europese Unie biedt de mogelijkheid de actuele werkzaamheden (workflow) van de Europese instellingen (Europees Parlement, Raad, ESC, Comité van de Regio's, Europese Centrale Bank, Hof van Justitie enz.) te volgen. EURlex volgt alle voorstellen (zoals wetgevende en begrotingsdossiers) en mededelingen van de Commissie, vanaf het moment dat ze aan de Raad of het Europees Parlement worden voorgelegd.
   
• 79. 

  Als dag van bekendmaking van een Europees besluit geldt de dag waarop het besluit in het Publicatieblad wordt bekendgemaakt, en daardoor in alle officiële talen van de Europese Unie bij het Publicatiebureau beschikbaar is.