Traducción de «Cargas burocráticas » (Español → Inglés) :

Calls, in the context of all measures taken in this area, for the bureaucratic burden on firms to be kept to a minimum; points out that excessive red tape can jeopardise acceptance and lead to job losses and job relocations; welcomes the workable, consensus-based compromises reached by the two sides of industry in the Member States with a strong tradition of codetermination; regards codetermination as a best-practice model for European economies.

2. Stresses that a significant reduction in the administrative burden on citizens and companies can only be achieved by reducing the number of legislative proposals and focusing on major priorities instead; calls on the Commission to pursue this approach in 2016 and to minimise the number of legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to take further steps in 2016 to reduce the cost of bureaucratic burdens with the ambition to reduce the burden by 50 % by 2030, and to set a target for a reduction in costs of compliance; calls for independent assessments to be established in order to measure the administrative burden and the related ...[+++] costs of new proposals;

Regulatory burdens and the reduction of regulatory burdens is a subject which is thick with rhetoric and clichés, but rather thin on action and practicality.

Another point I found interesting in today’s debate is the extent to which an excess of bureaucratic posts is having a negative impact on the European development process.

However, I would like to address one specific issue where the Commission and indeed all of us are rather weak: that is the issue of regulatory burdens.

We need to be a little better informed about the kind of regulatory burdens which we might be creating wittingly or, more importantly, unwittingly in the legislation that we pass.