Competitiveness: Delivering better regulation

The European Commission has recently carried out a strategic review of the Better Regulation initiative it presented in February 2005. This analyses the progress made in ensuring a high-quality regulatory environment and proposes concrete and measurable ways to meet the main challenges ahead. To give further impetus to the process, EU leaders were asked to agree at their European summit in March 2007 to aim for a 25% reduction in administrative burdens by 2012.