{"id":462758,"date":"2026-08-20T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/20\/semplificazione-la-commissione-e-a-meta-dellopera-tagliati-costi-burocratici-da-18-miliardi-su-375-dichiarati\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:41:03","slug":"simplification-commission-is-halfway-through-its-work-red-tape-costs-cut-by-18-billion-out-of-37-5-billion-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/simplification-commission-is-halfway-through-its-work-red-tape-costs-cut-by-18-billion-out-of-37-5-billion-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplification: Commission is halfway through its work \u2013 red tape costs cut by 18\u202fbillion out of 37.5\u202fbillion target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 Industrial simplification and competitiveness: the European Commission is halfway through its work. Measures have been adopted that meet 50 per cent of the targets set by the von der Leyen team, which is now racing against the clock to complete its mission. This is evident from the figures provided by the Commissioner for the Economy, <strong>Valdis Dombrovskis, <\/strong>in his reply to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-10-2026-002460_EN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parliamentary question<\/a> on the subject: \u201c<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The Commission has put a target to lower the administrative burden by at least 25 per cent for all<br \/>\nbusinesses and by at least 35 per cent for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises),&#8221; he points out.<\/span><\/span> Translated into absolute terms, \u201ct<span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">his target requires cutting recurring administrative<br \/>\ncosts by&nbsp;37.5 billion euros over the Commission\u2019s mandate,\u201d i.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/dombrovskis-administrative-savings-of-37-5-billion-euros-for-businesses-and-smes-by-2029\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by June 2029<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faced with this milestone, the EU is currently only halfway there, as Dombrovskis stressed: \u201cThe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/simplification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 12 Omnibus and other simplification proposals<\/a> put forward by the Commission by mid-2026 will translate into more<br \/>\nthan 18 billion euros of annual administrative cost savings for companies of all sizes.<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">&#8221; Looking at the figures, just over 18 billion euros out of a total of 37.5 billion means half the path has been completed, and half remains.<\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">As part of this process of regulatory simplification and the reduction of bureaucratic costs, &#8220;<strong>SMEs would benefit from significant savings,<\/strong>&#8221; &nbsp;Dombrovskis <span lang=\"it\" class=\"HwtZe\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">assures<\/span><\/span><\/span>. One example of this is the digital omnibus, which, as the Commissioner for the Economy explains, amounts to \u201c860 million euros of administrative burden reduction.\u201d Furthermore, the proposal for a targeted revision of EU rules on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic devices will result in cost reductions of \u201c1.5 billion euros\u201d for small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/12\/european-commission-to-focus-on-simplification-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Commission launched the simplification process in 2025<\/a> and implemented it through the legislative initiatives known as &#8220;Omnibus packages&#8221;. The European Commission launched the process on 26 February 2025 with the first two packages on sustainability and investment, followed by the Omnibus packages on Agriculture (20 May), the internal market and SMEs (21 May), defence (17 June), chemicals and cosmetics (8 July), the digital sector (19 November), the environment (10 December), the automotive sector (16 December) and food safety (16 December). In addition to these ten Omnibus packages, there were those from 2026: taxation (24 June) and energy products (24 June).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner for the Economy, Valdis Dombrovskis, provides an overview of the results achieved through the 12 Omnibus packages proposed to date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":462749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30805,25681],"tags":[26428,26324,26752,30437,27356,33394,25979],"class_list":["post-462758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-markets","category-politics","tag-imprese-en","tag-omnibus-en","tag-simplification-en","tag-ue","tag-valdis-dombrovskis-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462759,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462758\/revisions\/462759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}