The Commission has released four working papers that list “existing reporting obligations” in energy and related EU policy fields. “Two hundred” such obligations were first cited by VP Šefčovič on 18 May, when he suggested some or all could be merged.
The obligations include both those upon member states to report to the Commission as well as obligations on the Commission to report to other EU institutions.
Access to these tables now presents a chance for interested parties, alongside officials, to consider which of the legal provisions listed may be candidates for “simplification” as the “energy union” work programme and related rule-making moves forward.
The EC’s cover letter stresses ~ and readers should be aware ~ that the tables are only work-in-progress and in themselves say nothing about any particular new policy.
I will only make my own analysis of the tables’ content after the summer break, which for me starts tomorrow. 🙂
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