In the communication adopted yesterday, “REFIT - Fit for growth,” the European Commission announced that it was going to implement a Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT) for several social regulations, starting with those on the information and consultation of workers. It also confirms that it intends to ‘abandon’ health and safety. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) says the main point is to deregulate European labor law. Indeed, the difference between “Refit” and “Reboot” is quite slim. (Ref. 130586)
Hunting down “bureaucratic” European legislative texts is one of the priorities of European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. Proud to announce that, “Since 2005, [it] approved 660 initiatives aimed at simplification, codification or recasting, [that] more than 5 590 legal acts have been repealed,” and that “the Top Ten consultation of SMEs on the most burdensome EU legislative acts for SMEs has fed-in the priorities of SMEs into the Commission’s regulatory fitness agenda,” the Commission gives an overview of its work for the home stretch of its term.
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