Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Fit for Future Platform made meaningful contributions to streamlining and modernising EU law over its four-year mandate.
The European Commission’s Fit for Future Platform, a high-level expert body comprised of stakeholders and representatives of all Member States, carried out its final plenary session under its current mandate. The Platform is composed of a high-level expert group of national, regional and local authorities, civil society organisations, businesses and members of the RegHub network of the Committee of the Regions. It was formed in 2020 to complete the Commission’s regulatory simplification work.
What contributions did the Platform make during its mandate?
Throughout its four-year mandate, the Platform has assumed 41 opinions, containing some 260 detailed suggestions to help the European Commission simplify and update EU laws and to facilitate related unnecessary burdens for citizens and businesses.
In 2024, the Platform processed proposals on simplifying and facilitating EU legislation, reducing regulatory burdens, notably on reporting requirements, additional digitalisation, and better enforcement and undertaking ability of EU laws and programmes.
The opinions on organic production labelling of organic products and unfair trading practices in the food supply chain offered several recommendations to streamline the complex acquis, stop double reporting and bring in more transparency, clarity and legal certainty.
How has the Platform simplified reporting requirements for EU citizens?
Moreover, the Platform continued to play an essential role in supporting the Commission to deliver on the purpose of reducing the burden coming from reporting commitments by 25%. In
2024, it delivered 3 opinions on this topic that included Automated sustainability reporting: suggesting progress in the quality, accessibility and exchange of data required to report on sustainability; Actions and methodology to bypass the build-up of unnecessary reporting obligations: offering horizontal ideas to avoid the reporting burdens keep growing and to help stakeholders concede with them efficiently; Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation: suggesting methods to make financial disclosure less demanding and more meaningful.
The Platform also delivered substantial evidence and valuable understandings to the evaluations of several European funds, including the enactment of the European Social Fund Plus, the European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the Cohesion Fund.
