Annex
REFIT Initiatives
Pending Commission proposals awaiting adoption
Health and Consumer Policy
· Proposal for a Regulation on Consumer
Product Safety and a Regulation on Market Surveillance, introducing
a clearer set of rules, eliminating overlaps, and codifying certain
exemptions from reporting requirements
· Proposal for a revision of the Clinical
Trials Directive, with streamlined authorisation procedures and
simplified reporting requirements
· Proposals for a new animal health law,
replacing 37 legal acts; for a new plant health Regulation, replacing
7 legal acts; for a new plant reproductive material law, replacing
12 legal acts; and for a new Regulation on official controls along
the agri-food chain, replacing 10 legal acts
Environment
· Proposal for a Directive amending Directive
2011/92 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and
private projects on the environment
· Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation
1013/2006 on the shipment of waste
Internal Market and Services
· Proposal on the review of the Professional
Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC)
· Proposal to amend the Public Procurement
Directives (2004/18/EC and 2004/17/EC)
· Proposal on European Long-term Investment
Funds
Justice
· Proposal for a Regulation on the protection
of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data
and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection
Regulation)
· Proposal for a Directive on package travel
and assisted travel arrangements
Home Affairs
· Proposal for recast Directive on the entry
and stay in the EU for third-country national students, researchers
and other groups, such as school pupils, trainees, volunteers
and au pairs
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
· Proposal for a reform of the Common Fisheries
Policy
· Proposal on a Common Market Organisation
in fishery and aquaculture products
Energy
· Community system for the registration
of carriers of radioactive materials replacing national reporting
and authorisation procedures by a unique registration system to
simplify procedures while ensuring high radiation protection levels
· Consolidation of basic safety standards
in the field of radioprotection and associated directives
Budget
· Proposal for a new own resource based
on VAT
Taxation and Customs
· Common consolidated Corporate Tax base
Trade
· Proposal for a Regulation amending the
basic anti-dumping and anti-subsidy Regulations
Mobility and Transport
· Proposal amending Regulation 3821/85 on
recording equipment in road transport (tachograph)
NEW INITIATIVES BY THE COMMISSION TO SIMPLIFY, REDUCE
REGULATORY COSTS AND CONSOLIDATE LEGISLATION
Employment
· Consolidation of three Directives in the
area of information and consultation of workers subject to the
results of a consultation of social partners
Health and Consumer Policy
· Revision of Food Hygiene legislation to
consolidate hygiene provisions, simplify procedures and reinforce
a flexible approach for SMEs
· Consolidation of zootechnical legislation
· Simplification of veterinary medicines
legislation
Statistics
· Framework Regulations for Integrating
Business Statistics and social statistics
· Reform of the Farm Survey System
Home Affairs
· Simplification and streamlining of the
Visa Code
· Codification of the Schengen Borders Code
Justice
· Consolidation and merger of legislation
regarding consumer rights and advertising subject to the results
of a Fitness Check
· Revision of legislation on a European
Small Claims Procedure
· Directive 2006//114/EC concerning misleading
and comparative advertising
Internal Market and Services
· Revision of Directive 2009/65/EC relating
to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities
· Codification of eight Directives in company
law
Taxation and Customs
· Introduction of a standard EU VAT declaration
in all Member States
Agriculture
· Simplification of State Aid rules
· Review and simplification of the legal
framework for organic farming
Trade
· Codification of twenty six Council Regulations
following the adoption of two enabling Regulations bringing trade
legislation into line with the TFEU
· Updating Regulation 1418/2007 on the export
for recovery of hazardous waste to simplify procedures and reduce
the administrative burden
Mobility and Transport
· Simplification of cabotage rules in road
transport
Competition Policy
· Revision of Commission Regulation implementing
Council Regulation 139/2004 to introduce a simplified procedure
for Merger Control
Fisheries and Maritime affairs
· Fishing Authorisation Regulation
· Technical measures for the protection
of marine organisms
AREAS WHERE THE COMMISSION WILL PROPOSE, OR IS CONSIDERING,
THE REPEAL OF LAWS, WITHDRAW PENDING PROPOSALS OR WHERE INITIATIVES
WILL NOT BE TAKEN FORWARD
Environment
· Withdrawal of a proposal for a Soil framework
Directive
· Withdrawal of a proposal on access to
justice in the area of the environment
Employment
· The Commission will not propose legislation
regarding the occupational safety and health for hairdressers,
muscular skeletal disorders and screen displays, environmental
tobacco smoke, and carcinogens and mutagens
Enterprise and Industry
· Repeal of Directive 1999/45/EC on the
classification and packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations
Health and Consumer Policy
· Withdrawal of two proposals regarding
information to the general public on medicinal products subject
to medical prescription
· Repeal of Council Directive on assistance
to the Commission and cooperation by the Member States in the
scientific examination of questions relating to food.
Statistics
· Repeal of the Regulation on Steel Statistics
· Withdrawal of a proposal for a Regulation
on European statistics on safety from crime
Home Affairs
· Repeal of a Council Directive concerning
arrangements for cooperation between financial intelligence units
of the Member States in respect of exchanging information
Internal Market and Services
· Withdrawal of proposals in legislative
procedure on the legal protection of designs and on the Community
patent
· Withdrawal of the proposal for a Council
Regulation on the statute of a European private company
Taxation
· Withdrawal of the proposal for a Directive
simplifying VAT obligations
Mobility and Transport
· Repeal of Directive 2007/38/EC on the
retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles
· Repeal of Directive 2009/33/EC on the
promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
· Withdrawal of proposal on the legislative
procedure regarding driving licences which include the functionality
of a driver card
Energy
· Repeal of a Council Decision on the setting
of a Community target for a reduction in the consumption of primary
sources of energy in the event of difficulties in the supply of
crude oil and petroleum products and implementing legislation
Development Cooperation
· The Commission will not propose a new
European Union Food Facility
FITNESS CHECKS AND EVALUATIONS
Environment
· Fitness Check on Natura 2000, on the EU
Eco-label and EMAS
· Streamlining of reporting requirements
obligations in the environment sector applying the principles
of Structured Implementation and Information Frameworks.
· Evaluations of the European Pollutant
Release and Transfer Register, of legislation in relation to keeping
wild animals in zoos and regarding the Aarhus Convention
· Fitness Checks on Waste Policy
· Evaluations of legislation in relation
to environmental noise, volatile organic compound emissions, environmental
liability and Infrastructure for Spatial Information.
Employment
· Evaluations of legislation regarding information
obligations for employers in relation to employment contracts
· Evaluation of legislation in the area
of health and safety at work
· Directive 2008/104/EC on temporary agency
work
· Directives 91/81EC on part-time work and
99/70/EC on fixed-term work
Health and Consumer Policy
· Fitness Check of the General Food Law
Regulation
Enterprise and Industry
· Fitness Checks on the most relevant chemicals
legislation not covered by REACH as well as related aspects of
legislation applied to downstream industries
· Evaluations of the Machinery Directive
and firearms legislation
· Consultative cost assessments in the areas
of chemical industry and of forest-based industries
· Evaluation of regulations regarding the
internal market for industrial products
· Fitness Check on the type-approval system
for motor vehicles and of the oil refining sector
· Cumulative cost assessment of the aluminium
sector
· Cumulative cost assessment on the steel
sector
Energy
· Evaluation of the Directive on Renewable
Energy
Home affairs
· Fitness Check of legislation on legal
migration
· Evaluations of the Visa Information System,
FRONTEX, including Rapid Border Intervention Teams and legislation
on residence permits for victims of trafficking in human beings
· Comprehensive evaluation report of Council
Framework Decision on the fight against organised crime and on
combating terrorism
Justice
· Fitness Check with s view to the possible
need for consolidation and merger of legal acts related to consumer
rights and advertising
· Evaluation of legislation regarding equal
treatment in social security
· Evaluation of legislation on a European
Enforcement Order for uncontested claims
Internal market and Services
· Regulation 1606/2002 on the application
of international accounting standards
· New Remedies Directive (2007/66/EC)
· Financial Services legislation
· Directive 86/653 on commercial agents
Taxation and customs
· Evaluations of the Directive on the structure
and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco and of
general excise duty arrangements
Trade
· Comprehensive implementation report on
the EU export controls Regulation, including review of the Dual
Use Regulation (428/2009)
· Evaluation of Council Regulation 953/2003
to avoid trade diversion into the EU of certain key medicines
Mobility and Transport
· Evaluation of Directive 2004/54/EC on
tunnel safety
· Evaluation of the Combined Transport Directive
(92/106/EC)
· Evaluation of Passenger Ships Safety legislation
(Directive 2009/45/EC)
· Continuing work on the definition and
implementation of aviation safety for the non-commercial sector
Other Areas
· Evaluation of the European Consensus on
Humanitarian Aid
· Evaluation of Privacy and Electronic Communications
Directive (2009/136/EC)
· Evaluation of Audio-visual Media Services
Directive (2010/13/EU)
· Evaluation of Merger Regulation referral
system and minority shareholdings
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