EU LEGISLATION SIMPLIFICATION – ENVIRONMENTAL DIRECTIVES AND REGULATIONS
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to rewrite the European Union's (EU) environmental health law book, in a comprehensive effort to simplify existing EU legislation across the board. Aiming to ease the impact of often complex and baffling regulations on European local government and industry, Brussels has embarked on a three-year programme to scrap obsolete legislation, rewrite over-complex laws and combine overlapping directives and regulations. EU industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen said: "The policy objectives do not change, but the way to ...
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