European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality

The deadline for amendments on the draft opinion was on 24 February and 61 amendments were tabled in total. Among others, the draft opinion of the Rapporteur Ms Barbara Thaler (EPP) focuses on effective better law-making tools that take subsidiarity and proportionality fully into account when drawing up scientifically based and balanced legislation, particularly for consumers and SMEs and on internal market objectives such as improving competitiveness, digitalisation, sustainability and consumer protection that should be underpinned by the enhanced use of scrutiny instruments such as the regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) and the Regulatory Scrutiny Board. IMCO will vote on the draft opinion on 14/15 April and the vote in JURI is foreseen in May 2021.