The European Commission’s work programme for 2015 illustrates how high simplifying EU legislation is on the new executive’s agenda. But REFIT, its Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme, could also use more clarity. The Commission, contacted by Europolitics , was unable to provide in-depth explanations about the nature of the various actions.
Over half of the 79 actions presented in Annex III of the 2015 work programme are labelled as evaluations (44 in total), which are portrayed by a stakeholder as…