18 regeringer i EU, herunder den danske, har skrevet under på en direkte opfordring til kommissionens viceformand Frans Timmermans om at sætte konkrete mål for, hvor meget man vil reducere i borgeres og virksomheders administrative bøvl som følge af EU-regulering. ”You have demonstrated great ambition in the reforms you have already introduced and in your better regulation package of May 2015. But one particular – and essential – reform is still missing: we now need to establish targets for reducing the burden of regulation in particularly burdensome areas, in line with the conclusions of the Competitiveness and European Councils. (…). The introduction of such burden reduction targets would mark a major step forward in our approach to smarter regulation. This would of course be fully in accordance with the principles of the single market. The effects would be clearly experienced by our businesses and economies and would impact on the way the EU is perceived by our citizens. The Union must concentrate its action on areas where it makes a real difference; it should refrain from taking action when Member States can better achieve the same objectives,” hedder det i henvendelsen.
