According to HDE, the intended fitness checks, with which existing regulations are to be checked, can make a large contribution to efficient regulation. “In its work program, the European Commission sets correct and important priorities. In the coming months and years, it will be important that the EU will take advantage of the competitiveness of companies and a consistent reduction in bureaucracy, ”says Antje Gerstein, HDE managing director of European policy. The commitment to competitiveness, resilience and regulatory references was overdue. Now the European Commission also has to tackle the major challenges of this time. “In order to check existing regulation for their efficiency, the announced fitness checks are exactly the right instrument,” said Gerstein. One step in the right direction is also the planned so -called bus procedures, with which overlapping or contradicting regulations and reporting obligations are to be standardized. “This is urgently needed, especially with a view to the supply chain legislation,” says Gerstein.
The HDE also rates positively that the legislative proposal to E-Privacy is on the prank list. “After years in the trilogue negotiations, many aspects of the proposal for data protection and data processing have now been outdated, and an agreement is not in sight. It therefore makes sense to take back the proposal, ”says Gerstein.
According to HDE, the fact that the European Commission also withdraw the proposal for a guideline for liability for artificial intelligence is also a real step. “There are already various new and revised legal frames in the AI area, such as the AI-act or the product liability guideline. Most of these still have to be implemented and their interactions and overlaps are still evaluated and checked in practice, ”said Gerstein. The withdrawal of the proposal to liability at AI could therefore help create a clearer legal framework and a simplification of the legal provisions for AI.
However, other EU law projects would also have to be withdrawn immediately, such as the proposal for a new payment regulation. The currently applicable guideline already contains sufficient EU-wide requirements. “The newly proposed changes to the European Commission simply do not do justice to the complex economic reality of contractual relationships,” continued Gerstein. They are far too far. The proposed payment periods would intervene disproportionately into freedom of contract and in particular endanger the liquidity of small and medium -sized companies.
With a view to the next few years, the HDE warns of decisive action. “In the coming years, the European Commission will have to focus on the two biggest challenges, competitiveness and the defense capacity of Europe. Then the regulative tsunami of recent years can gradually be converted into functioning legislation. For this, however, the European Commission has to practice disciplined self -limitation, ”says Gerstein.
