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Thursday, January 17, 2008

First meeting of High Level Expert Group on administrative burdens

The High Level Expert Group on Administrative Burdens will discuss today how best to support the Commission in the implementation of the Action Programme to Reduce Administrative Burdens and will decide on procedural aspects of its work.The High Level Group (HLG) consists of 15 experts, chaired by Edmund Stoiber. The HLG will receive a progress report from the Commission on the work undertaken so far in this area notably:

* The state of play in the implementation of the first package of so-called fast track actions adopted in 2007 and which aimed to reduce red tape by some 1.3 billion Euro (IP/07/1076). To date, five of the ten actions have already been formally adopted. The others are well under way and should be adopted in the coming months.
* The progress of the work of the consortium that is currently completing the mapping and preparing the measurement of administrative burdens within the European Union.
* Finally, the HLG will also have a first exchange of views on the second fast track actions package to be proposed by the Commission in the course of 2008 and notably how best they can contribute their own experience to the preparation of this package as well as more generally how best to drive forward the ambitious programme.

Edmund Stoiber announced that the group will table courageous proposals regarding a fundamental limitation of bureaucracy in Europe. Administrative cost and time lost because of administrative burden in Europe will have to be reduced significantly, if Europe and its Member States want to keep up in a globalised economy.

Source  Press Room - European Commission

More information  Press Room - European Commission

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