While the EU regulatory machinery is improving its capacity to simplify, it remains significantly more effective at adding new layers of regulatory cost and complexity. Without a veritable mindset shift towards leaner and smarter EU regulation, simplification efforts are set to remain a compensatory exercise rather than helping achieve a genuine rebalancing of the regulatory framework.
According to Orgalim calculations, the EU’s simplification efforts initiated in 2025 are poised to deliver €7.76 billion in cost savings for Orgalim industries – a significant share of the €15 billion in overall annual savings achieved according to the European Commission.
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