Committee on Legal Affairs – Extraordinary Meeting
8 October 2026
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JURI European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:21 - 00:54
By roll call and open the vote. Close the vote. 23 in favor, no against, no abstentions. We are now voting on a draft legislative proposal containing amendments to the statute for MEPs regarding proxy voting.
00:54 - 01:04
Um, no, maybe just to say thank you to everybody for the pleasant cooperation in this and let's vote this through.
01:04 - 03:37
Thank you. The committee will first vote on two compromise amendments and then the final vote. We'll vote electronically and the final vote is roll call, so I open the vote for the compromises. Okay, I close the vote. 24 in favor, no against, no abstentions.
And the final vote is by roll call, open the vote. Okay, sorry, sorry, I'm too fast, yeah. Open for the compromise, for compromise two, open the vote. Close the vote. So 11 in favor, 13 against, no abstention.
And then we go to final vote. And this is going to be a roll call, open the vote. Close the vote. So 24 in favor, no against, no abstentions, congratulations to our voters. Thank you very much, dear colleagues, that was it for the votes.
The next item is European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality report on better lawmaking covering 2025 and 2026 and the rapporteur is Jörgen Warborn. Colleagues, I give you 30 seconds for those leaving the room to leave it quietly, for those staying to focus on next agenda. Okay, Mr. Warborn, dear Jörgen, if you are ready, and Mr. Mondo, I give you the floor for five minutes, yeah.
03:37 - 07:20
PPE Député européen
Membre | Délégation à l’Assemblée parlementaire de partenariat UE-Royaume-Uni 
Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, this report reviews better lawmaking in 2025, but it also looks at what we see happening right now in 2026 and where we need to go from here. In the report, we naturally focus on the communication that the Commission released in April this year, the communication that is called "Simpler, clearer and better enforced EU rulebook". Here, I support simplicity by design and the deep cleaning of the rulebook. That is the right direction, but deep cleaning must not stop in 2027, it must run through this whole mandate with a clear numbers on what is removed.
The Commission has put forward 12 omnibus proposals with a cost reduction of 17 billion annually. This is of course far from the 37.5 billion that the Commission has promised to deliver, and in order to achieve this number, we have to push further and do the simplification faster. Now, let me mention three of the priorities in the report. This is of course not the only thing in the report, but three things I'd like to mention explicitly. First of all, there is in this yearly report, as in the last time, a push from my side when it comes to the one-in-two-out principle.
You know, colleagues, that the Commission works with the one-in-one-out, but we are now pushing for one-in-two-out, meaning that for each euro that is added to the cost of businesses, two euros should be deducted. Second of all, gold-plating. We have to come to a stop for gold-plating from the Member States. It is of course very good that the Commission President launched this pact on gold-plating, and in this report we also push for this so that of course it means more with gold-plating, it means more cost for businesses, but also it means that you fragment the internal market and that is a problem in itself and creates complexity that is unnecessary. So a clear call for stop gold-plating.
And thirdly, compensating for some reporting. This was already in the last year's report and we managed to find a good compromise here in JURI and we had a majority in plenary, namely saying that the Commission should make a feasibility report where it could compensate the Commission or authorities or governments, where authorities could compensate businesses for reporting obligations. Because I am convinced that in some cases the reporting is too much basically. And the businesses, not least the small and medium-sized businesses, they actually do the job for the governments for free today. And I think if governments and authorities call for a lot of information, a lot of reporting, it is fair that businesses are compensated for this.