Committee on Legal Affairs – Ordinary Meeting
5 November 2026
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JURI European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:07 - 00:44
Speaker 2
Dear colleagues, please take your seats. The next item on our agenda is the presentation of draft report on European Union regulatory fitness, subsidiarity and proportionality report on better lawmaking covering two years 2025 and 2026. This is a standing JURI competence, and today, we will consider amendments tabled to the draft report which Mr Warborn presented at the extraordinary committee meeting on 8th of October. So with that, I would like to give you the floor, Mr Warborn.
00:44 - 02:32
Speaker 1
Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, I want to start by thanking all of you for your work on the amendments. We have received in total 255 amendments from seven political groups, and I'm pleased to say that there is a lot of common ground here. I will start with my own amendments, and then I'll turn to yours. First, impact assessment.
From my side, I think that every proposal with a significant impact on the economy, on competitiveness, and on the public budgets should have one. A lighter assessment must still be met with minimum standards, and that is a clear problem definition, real alternatives, quantified costs and benefits, and the impact on SMEs. The SME test and the competitiveness check must also apply when the proposal is urgent. Second of all, our own amendments from the Parliament. During the legislative procedure, we in the Parliament and the Council table amendments that can change proposal substantially and its costs.
According to the EPRS, this Parliament has assessed its substantial amendments only 17 times since 2005. The last time was in 2017, and to our knowledge, the Council has never done it. And I propose an internal procedure that fits within our legislative timetable to make this happen. We need to make it in more instances, I guess. Thirdly, we have to tackle gold-plating.
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