COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Simplifying for sustainable competitiveness
Date: 2025-12-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission
Subjects: EU environmental policy, administrative formalities, circular economy, competitiveness, environmental impact, environmental protection, industrial pollution, simplification of legislation

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 10.12.2025  COM(2025) 980 final  COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Simplifying for sustainable competitiveness {SWD(2025) 990 final}  
 
 
1.  INTRODUCTION 

The  protection  of  Europe’s  environment  is  imperative  for  our  resilience,  prosperity  and 
competitiveness. The health and well-being of Europeans and the resilience of our economy 
and strategic autonomy depend on our environment and on the availability of sufficient and 
clean natural resources. European businesses are dependent on the environment: 19 out of 23 
economic sectors in the EU have substantial dependencies on nature (1). 

Over  the  past  decades,  to  achieve  its  environmental  goals,  the  EU  has  developed  a  strong 
framework of legislation spanning critical objectives, which include protecting and improving 
the quality of the EU’s air, water soil and biodiversity, reducing pollution and restoring natural 
habitats,  managing  waste  and  promoting  a  more  sustainable  circular  economy.  The  Union’s 
clean  transition  is  a  key  driver  for  Europe’s  long-term  prosperity  and  sustainable 
competitiveness.  

Environmental protection must be secured in a way that enables Europe to rise effectively to 
the unprecedented geoeconomic, geopolitical and security challenges it faces. These challenges 
have a disruptive impact on the social and economic realities and can also indirectly represent 
a major risk to its environment.  

Environmental degradation and resource depletion cause damage to the economy, infrastructure 
and financial stability, whilst a nature-positive, circular economy can create growth and jobs. 
A healthy planet and resilient economy go hand in hand. Competitiveness and sustainability are 
two sides of the same coin.  

With  the  Competitiveness  Compass (2)  as  its  defining  strategy,  the  Commission  aims  to 
urgently  boost  innovation,  foster  decarbonisation  and  competitiveness,  reduce  dependencies 
and strengthen strategic autonomy. It specifically calls for unprecedented efforts to simplify 
Union laws to make doing business easier and faster without undermining policy objectives.  

In this context, the Commission set the target of cutting administrative burden by at least 25% 
for  all  companies  and  at  least  35%  for  small  and  medium-sized  enterprises  (SMEs)  while 
staying  the  course  on  its  goals.  The  European  Council  in  its  conclusions  also  called  for 
simplification (3), including in the area of permitting and the environment.  

This simplification package (the eighth omnibus) aims to ensure that the environmental goals 
of  the  European  Union  are  achieved  in  more  efficient,  less  costly  and  smarter  ways.  The 
measures proposed in this package are set to facilitate the implementation of existing laws and 
the  achievement  of  environmental  objectives,  while  at  the  same  time  reducing  unnecessary 
bureaucracy for businesses, including farmers and SMEs, and boosting the single market.  

The  scope  of  this  comprehensive  package  focuses  on  industrial  emissions,  circularity  and 
environmental assessments. The proposed measures will also contribute to the objectives of the 

(1)  JRC Publications Repository - The EU economy's dependency on nature. 
(2)  COM(2025) 30 final of 29 January 2025, A Competitiveness Compass for the EU. 
(3)  European Council conclusions on competitiveness and twin transition of 23 October 2025.   

 
 
 
ResourceEU Action Plan on reducing Europe’s dependencies on critical raw materials. The 
legislative  proposal  to  speed-up  environmental  assessments,  which  is  part  of  the  omnibus 
package,  ensures  simplification,  coherence  and  legal  certainty  for  faster  and  better 
environmental  assessments,  providing  a  legal  framework  for  all  sectors  and  is  thus 
complementary to, and coherent with the Grids Package as well as the upcoming Industrial 
Accelerator Act and the Cloud and AI Development Act. 

In  the  Vision  for  agriculture  and  food (15), the  Commission  has  committed  to  deliver 
meaningful simplification in policy areas that affect farmers, the food and feed businesses and 
the related administrations. The initiatives set out in this Communication have the potential to 
contribute to this objective and make it easier and more attractive for young people to enter the 
profession, supporting a generational renewal in agriculture. 

2.  THE SCOPE OF THE ENVIRONMENT OMNIBUS 

The Commission has engaged in a broad consultation with stakeholders, civil society, public 
authorities and businesses, Member States and Members of the European Parliament, including 
through  its  Implementation  Dialogues,  stakeholder  roundtables  and  numerous  meetings (4). 
Building on these exchanges, a targeted call for evidence was opened between 22 July and 10 
September 2025 focusing on the potential to simplify environmental rules, in particular for the 
circular economy, industrial emissions and environmental impact assessments and permitting. 
The call for evidence generated impressive feedback of almost 200 000 responses from citizens, 
businesses,  civil  society  organisations  and  think  tanks.  Most  came  from  citizens  who  spoke 
against deregulation and weakening of environmental standards. More than 1 200 responses 
were received from business associations,  civil society organisations,  public authorities, and 
academics and included around 620 position papers. Responses covered almost the entire body 
of environment law and demonstrate the importance of getting simplification right.  

The Commission conducted a careful, systematic review of all input received. This analysis 
helped define the content of the omnibus package. Moreover, various suggestions will feed into 
preparing other new initiatives (for example, the upcoming Circular Economy Act) and some 
will be further assessed under upcoming evaluations of EU laws. Finally, some of the feedback 
received  can  be  addressed  without  recourse  to  legislative  revision,  through  guidelines  or 
implementing  measures,  which  in  some  cases  can  provide  more  effective  and  immediate 
solutions, legal clarity and predictability.   

After in-depth analysis, the following key elements have been included in the omnibus package:  

Industrial installations and the circular economy 

–  Cutting  administrative  burden  concerning  industrial  emissions:  the  Commission 
proposes significant simplification concerning environmental management systems (EMS) 

(4)  Implementation  Dialogue  on  environmental  assessments  and  permitting  -  Environment;  Implementation 
dialogue on the chemicals industry package with Commissioner Jessika Roswall - Environment; Roundtable 
with stakeholders on environmental omnibus - Environment 

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and transformation plans under the industrial and livestock rearing emissions Directive. 
Currently,  this  Directive  requires  an  EMS  for  each  installation,  while  under  the 
Commission proposal EMS can be prepared at company level within the same Member 
State.  Three  additional  years  will  be  given  to  prepare  an  EMS,  their  content  will  be 
simplified (no requirement for chemicals inventory and risk assessment) and the obligation 
for independent audit repealed as systems such as EMAS and ISO 14001 generally address 
auditing  already.  The  requirement  to  prepare  indicative  transformation  plans  would  be 
repealed. Moreover, it is proposed to exclude organic poultry farms from the scope of the 
Industrial Emissions Directive. Also, the calculation of farm capacity will be simplified by 
excluding unweaned piglets.  

–  Targeted changes to the Industrial and Livestock Rearing Emissions Directive (5) and the 
Medium  Combustion  Plants  Directive (6)  will  ease  the  permitting  of  decarbonisation 
projects using oxy-fuel or hydrogen-based combustion. A few changes to the transitional 
provisions  of  the  revised  IED  will  give  the  Member  States,  competent  authorities  and 
operators more time to comply with some of the new or revised provisions while providing 
clarity on when these provisions apply.   

– 

Simplification  of  the  industrial  emissions  reporting:  Livestock  and  aquaculture 
operators will be exempted from reporting on water, energy and materials use under the 
Industrial emissions reporting legislation (7). Member States will be able to report more 
information  on  behalf  of  individual  farmers  and  aquaculture  operators,  thereby  further 
alleviating the reporting burden for these sectors. 

–  Reducing administrative burden under waste legislation: The ‘SCIP’ (8) database has 
not been effective in informing recyclers about the presence of hazardous substances in 
products and has imposed substantial administrative costs. It is therefore proposed to repeal 
the obligation to report SCIP-related data. The EU chemicals legislation, in particular the 
One  Substance  One  Assessment  package  as  well  as  the  digital  product  passport  will 
progressively fulfil the envisaged role of the database. When designing the digital product 
passport  for  products,  the  Commission  will  include  data  about  substances  of  very  high 
concern in its scope. 

–  Reducing administrative burden concerning extended producer responsibility (EPR) 
schemes: Producers selling  products  in  Member  States  other than those where they  are 
based  will  be  able  to  decide  whether  to  appoint  an  authorised  representative  in  those 
Member  States  in  relation  to  extended  producer  responsibility  (EPR)  for  waste 

(5)  Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial and 

livestock rearing emissions. 

(6)  Directive  (EU)  2015/2193  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  25  November  2015  on  the 
limitation  of  emissions  of  certain  pollutants  into  the  air  from  medium  combustion  plants,  OJ  L  313, 
28.11.2015, p.1. 

(7)  Regulation (EU) 2024/1244 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 April 2024 on reporting of 
environmental  data  from  industrial  installations,  establishing  an  Industrial  Emissions  Portal  and  repealing 
Regulation (EC) No 166/2006, OJ L, 2024/1244, 2.5.2024, p.1. 

(8)  Articles containing substances of very high concern (SVHCs) on the ‘Candidate List’ at a concentration above 
0.1% weight by weight (w/w) placed on the EU market notified according to Article 9(1)(i) of the Waste 
Framework Directive 2008/98/EC. The database currently contains over 16 million entries for such products. 
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management requirements (9). Companies having already designated such representatives 
can  maintain  their  current  set-up.  These  changes  represent  a  stepping  stone  to  more 
profound  simplification.  The  Circular  Economy  Act  will  further  propose  to  reduce  the 
extent of reporting that producers undertake about the products made available and data 
on  the  collection  and  treatment  of  waste  linked  to  those  products,  and  by  limiting  the 
reporting  frequency  to  a  maximum  of  once  per  year.  Single  Market  harmonisation  and 
digitalisation of extended producer responsibility envisaged under the Circular Economy 
Act  in  2026.  Further  simplification  in  the  upcoming  Circular  Economy  Act  will  also 
include simplification concerning third country producers.    

–  Targeted changes for simplification: A series of targeted changes are proposed to a range 
of  instruments  including:  the  Directive  on  Medium  Combustion  Plants  Directive (10)  to 
alleviate  the  requirements  for  back-up  generators  supporting  large  data  centres;  the 
Batteries Regulation (11) regarding the legal definition of ‘producer’ to capture all selling 
techniques for distance sellers, to ensure the right balance between safety and repairability 
for light means of transport (LMT) batteries and to simplify labelling regarding substances 
of concern. 

The INSPIRE Directive 

– 

Simplifying reporting on spatial data: The technical data requirements of the INSPIRE 
Directive (12)  will  be  aligned  with  the  Open  Data  Directive (13).  The  proposal  is  in  full 
synergy  with  the  Digital  Omnibus  proposal10,  which  proposes  to  create  one  single 
consolidated  instrument  for  Europe’s  data  economy,  without  proposing  substantive 
amendments  to  the  provisions  currently  in  force  under  the  Open  Data  Directive.  This 
proposal supports the objectives of the Data Union Strategy as it aims to cut costs, and to 
reduce complexity making it significantly easier for Member States to make high-quality 
data publicly available. Better implementation will help to increase the availability high-
value geospatial environmental data for reuse by the public and private sector. Such data 
can  power  a  wide  range  of  downstream  services  —  from  real-time  environmental 
monitoring and climate-risk assessments to smarter urban planning, sustainable mobility 
solutions and improved emergency response. By enabling broader use and reuse of this 
data,  the  proposal  fully  supports  the  Digital  Omnibus  objective  of  making  EU  data 

(9)  These horizontal provisions would suspend the application of relevant provisions in  the Waste Framework 
Directive, the Batteries Regulation, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, and the Regulation 
on Packaging and Packaging Waste. 

(10)  Directive  (EU)  2015/2193  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  25  November  2015  on  the 
limitation  of  emissions  of  certain  pollutants  into  the  air  from  medium  combustion  plants,  OJ  L  313, 
28.11.2015, p. 1. 

(11)  Regulation  (EU)  2023/1542  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  12  July  2023  concerning 
batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing 
Directive 2006/66/EC, OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p.1. 

(12)  Directive  2007/2/EC  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of  14  March  2007  establishing  an 
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE), OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1. 
(13)  Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and 

the re-use of public sector information (recast), OJ L 172, 26.6.2019, p. 56. 

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legislation  leaner,  easier  to  implement  and  more  conducive  to  an  innovative  and 
competitive data economy. 

Environmental assessments and permitting 

– 

Speeding  up  environmental  assessments:    The  Draghi  report  pointed  to  lengthy  and 
uncertain  permitting  procedures  – in particular  a lack of administrative capacity  and  of 
digitalisation – as major obstacles to the deployment of new power supply and grids, access 
to critical raw materials and more broadly towards clean and digital transition projects. On 
23 October 2025, EU Leaders called on the Commission to intensify its efforts to stress-
test  the  EU  acquis  including  the  exploration  of  proposals  to  streamline  and  accelerate 
planning and permitting procedures in the Member States. Delays in national permitting 
procedures have been raised by many stakeholders in the call for evidence.  

–  To respond to this, and as announced in the Chemicals Industry Action Plan on 8 July, a 
proposal on speeding up environmental assessments which are core to the permit granting 
process is tabled as part of the omnibus package.  The proposal provides for a simplified 
and  coherent  umbrella  for  faster  and  better-quality  environmental  assessments.  The 
proposal  will  ensure  that  project  developers  will  benefit  from  simpler  and  accelerated 
procedures with single points of contact co-ordinating complex procedures, cooperation 
between  authorities 
impacts, 
digitalisation,  ensuring  sufficient  staffing  and  capacity  of  permitting  authorities,  and 
limited financial support to cover administrative costs. Further measures to accelerate key 
energy, digital and industrial decarbonisation projects, including relevant circular economy 
projects, are also proposed, covering measures such as tacit approval and procedural and 
judicial prioritisation by the Member States. 

for  environmental  assessments  with  cross-border 

The net impact of the omnibus package will reduce administrative burdens by around EUR 
1 billion per annum. SMEs will be the first to benefit notably if proposed changes concerning 
authorised representative facilitations and the SCIP database are agreed. As well as the direct 
savings,  there  will  be  additional  benefits  such  as  an  acceleration  and  simplification  of 
environmental assessment, which will in particular benefit projects with an investment value of 
at least EUR 30 billion per annum.  

The initial estimates cost savings has been calculated using the Standard Cost Methodology, as 
set out in the Better Regulation toolbox, for the main measures. Overall, these measures will 
reduce administrative burdens by around EUR 1 billion annually, primarily aiding businesses 
and public authorities, and fostering efficiency improvements.  

The omnibus proposal includes limited and targeted amendments to the respective Directives 
and Regulations in the area of environment, and targeted suspension of certain provisions in the 
area  of  waste  EPR  schemes,  which  are  strictly  necessary  to  achieve  the  objectives  of  the 
proposal. Further possible modifications of those Directives or Regulations are entirely outside 
of the scope and aims of the present omnibus proposal. The need for any further modifications 
may be assessed, as appropriate, in the context of further stress-testing of EU environmental 
legislation and proposals announced in Commission work programme 2026, in particular the 
upcoming Circular Economy Act (see section 3). The Commission will constructively engage 

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with  the  co-legislators  to  facilitate  an  agreement,  pursuing  that  the  main  objectives  and 
principles of the Commission’s proposal are maintained. 

3.  FUTURE SIMPLIFICATION 

Simplification  did  not  begin  with,  and  does  not  end  with,  the  eighth  omnibus (14).  The 
Commission  is  committed  to  continue  exploiting  the  full  potential  for  simplification,  stress 
testing EU legislation and working on effective implementation. Implementation needs to be 
workable and simple. Taking into account all areas of EU legislation, attention needs to be paid 
to the overall combined administrative burden, aiming to achieve policy goals in a cost-effective 
way. Stress-testing efforts will cover the full set of environmental acquis during the 2024-2029 
mandate of the Commission. 

 On 4 December 2025, the co-legislators  reached a provisional agreement on Commission’s 
proposal tabled on 21 October 2025 to simplify and ensure a smooth implementation of the EU 
Deforestation Regulation. 

In  addition,  the  Commission  will  explore  simplification  possibilities  when  preparing  the 
following new initiatives: 

–  A targeted revision of the REACH chemicals legislation(15). 

–  The Circular Economy Act in Q3 2026 will deliver simpler, harmonised rules and 
lower  costs  for  cross-border  circular  activities  and  will  create  a  single  market  for 
waste  and  recycled  materials.  Building  on  the  targeted  simplification  of  the 
“authorised  representatives”  regime  including  the  suspension  of  the  provision  to 
have one representative per Member State as part of the omnibus the Commission is 
assessing the potential for larger scale reform of extended producer  responsibility 
scheme, including for third country producers, advocated by many stakeholders in 
their  submissions  to  the  call  for  evidence.  This  includes  further  harmonisation  of 
Union  legislation,  simplification  and  digitalisation  of  the  extended  producer 
responsibility schemes through a digital one-stop-shop for information, registration 
and reporting.   

– 

In  order  to  simplify  the  business  environment  and  the  functioning  of  the  single 
market for waste and secondary materials, the Commission is currently exploring the 
potential of  green-listing  of certain  types of non-hazardous waste by  adoption of 
delegated acts under the Waste Shipment Regulation for shipments between Member 
States.  The  Commission  is  also  aware  of  specific  concerns  raised  regarding 
provisions in the Regulation, restricting the export of mixed municipal waste for 
recovery from the EU, notably in the case where the geographical situation in certain 
regions  warrants  the  export  of  such  waste  through  more  sustainable  means  of 
transportation  to  near-by  waste  management  facilities  in  neighbouring  EFTA 

(14)  2025 Overview Report on Simplification, Implementation and Enforcement - European Commission 
(15)  See COM(2025) 530 final, A European Chemicals Industry Action Plan.  

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countries. The Commission will explore with the co-legislators how to address the 
matter in a timely manner in the Circular Economy Act or through other legislative 
tools, in line with the objectives of the Waste Shipment Regulation and of the EU 
decarbonisation agenda. 

–  The  Water Framework Directive has  been made simpler as part of the political 
agreement  reached  on  surface  water  pollutants  by  the  co-legislators  in  September 
2025.  This  includes  flexibilities  that  address  some  of  the  issues  raised  by 
stakeholders, including streamlined and reduced reporting obligations as well as the 
introduction  of  new  exemptions  (for  temporary  deterioration  and  relocation  of 
pollutants).  The  effective  implementation  of  the  relevant  provisions  of  the  Water 
Framework  Directive  will  be  stress-tested  in  2026,  including  the  recently  agreed 
exemptions to the non-deterioration principle with a view to determine whether they 
have brought tangible improvements. Commission guidance will be prepared in Q1 
2026  to  clarify  various  issues  outlined  by  stakeholders,  in  particular  concerning 
permitting. The Commission will also intensify the dialogue with stakeholders and 
Member  States  facing  specific  challenges  in  the  implementation  of  the  Water 
Framework  Directive,  keeping  in  mind  the  objectives  of  the  ResourceEU  Action 
Plan (16) to boost Europe’s strategic autonomy and reduce dependencies on imports 
of critical materials. Moreover, by Q2 2026 the Commission will review and revise 
the Water Framework Directive building on stakeholders’ input and experiences in 
Member States, paying particular attention to simplification and the need to address 
potential  bottlenecks,  in  order  to  promote  circularity  and  access  to  critical  raw 
materials in the EU, while protecting the environment and human health(17). 

-  The upcoming revision of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive will also lead 
to significant simplification. The Commission will aim to improve coherence with the 
EU  freshwater  acquis,  focusing  on  delivering  results  by  reducing  reporting 
requirements, and improving data management and governance across the Regional 
Seas Conventions (18). 

In addition, particular attention will be given to areas that were raised by many stakeholders 
and  will  require  more  in-depth  assessment  and  consideration  of  policy  choices,  mainly 
through secondary legislation and guidance. For instance: 

–  As part of the Water Resilience Strategy (19), there will be a series of Structured 
Water  Dialogues  in  2026  that  could  identify  additional  issues  and  lead  to  further 
improvements, including in relation to reporting burden and alignment of monitoring 
and reporting cycles for the water acquis.  

(16)  COM(2025) 945 final of 3 December 2025, ResourceEU action plan - Accelerating our critical raw materials 

strategy to adapt to a new reality. 

(19)  COM(2025) 280 final of 4 June 2025, European Water Resilience Strategy. 

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–  The Commission will establish a harmonised format for registration in the register 
of  producers  for  extended  producer  responsibility  for  under  the  revised  Waste 
Framework Directive.  

–  On the Nature Restoration Regulation, the Commission will intensify its support 
to Member States and regional authorities in the preparations of their draft National 
Restoration  Plans  in  a  collaborative  process,  addressing  national  and  regional 
challenges. The Commission will assess with Member States and stakeholders issues 
raised in the call for evidence, consider additional measures in secondary legislation 
and provide support for  stakeholders  potentially  affected by restoration measures, 
mobilise public and private investment, and minimise reporting burdens.   

–  The Commission will stress-test the Birds and Habitats Directives in 2026 taking 
into account climate change, food security, competitiveness, resilience, the evolving 
case-law and need for legal certainty and other developments and present guidelines 
to facilitate implementation including with regard to predative species.  

–  The Commission will complete ongoing evaluations of the Nitrates Directive (20) 
and take follow up measures, looking into how the objectives of this Directive could 
be achieved in the most effective and proportionate way. The Commission will also 
evaluate,  how  it  could  enable  innovative  and  alternative  uses  of  manure  to 
stimulate new business and sustainable investment opportunities and contribute to 
environmental  and  climate  objectives  (biogas/biomethane,  Renure,  digestates  and 
their different uses).  

–  To  support  the  implementation  of  the  Packaging  and  Packaging  Waste 
Regulation,  the  Commission  will,  as  a  priority,  issue  a  Commission  notice  and 
Frequently Asked Questions with guidance on the most frequently raised points in 
the  call  for  evidence  and  in  bilateral  exchanges,  including  testing  for  PFAS, 
application dates, labelling requirements and, reuse targets. The input from the call 
for evidence will also be used in the context of the adoption of the implementing 
measures  due  in  2026  and  2027.  When  developing  harmonised  labelling 
specifications,  due  account  will  be  taken  of  existing  systems  and  specificities  of 
some  products  and  their  regulation  (e.g.  medicines)  to  protect  patient  safety  and 
human health. A draft Delegated Act will be published for stakeholders’ feedback 
that would  provide an exemption  for pallet  wrappings and straps  from  the 100 % 
reuse targets. The Commission will consider in its implementing measures additional 
flexibilities  for  other  packaging  formats,  notably  where  hygiene  and  food  safety 
issues  prevent  the  achievement  of  those  targets.  The  Commission  will  simplify 
reporting as much as possible via implementing measures to reduce administrative 
burdens in  close collaboration with  stakeholders and Member States in  the newly 
established expert group for packaging. 

(20)  Other  upcoming  evaluations  that  will  include  the  Single  Use  Plastics  Directive,  the  Extractive  Waste 

Directive, the Water Reuse Regulation, the Waste Framework Directive and the Landfill Directive. 

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–  Regarding  the  Single  Use  Plastics  Directive,  the  Commission  will  complete  an 
evaluation in 2027 to determine if it has met its objectives to reduce (marine) plastic 
pollution and to improve circularity. The evaluation will fully assess the possibility 
to  reduce  administrative  burden.  A  specific  call  for  evidence  and  a  public 
consultation will be launched in the coming weeks.  

– 

Implementation  reports  will  be  prepared  to  assess  whether  the  legislation  is 
working  well  and  identify  potential  issues,  such  as  the  upcoming  reports  on  the 
Ecodesign  for  Sustainable  products  Regulation,  the  EMAS  Regulation  and  the 
Environmental Noise Directive. 

–  The Commission will also consider more generally how to further facilitate the life 
of SMEs notably by exploiting fully the potential of digitalisation and the use of 
Artificial Intelligence. For example, the Digital Waste Shipment System (DIWASS) 
will  simplify  waste  shipments  between  Member  States,  ensuring  that  waste  is 
efficiently recycled in the EU. 

4.  CONCLUSION 

This balanced package will further deliver on the Commission’s objective to cut red tape and 
reduce  complexity  of  EU  laws  in  order  to  support  European  companies  in  an  increasingly 
complex geopolitical context. Its purpose is to facilitate a clean transition towards a sustainable 
and resilient economy and to reward the most innovative and competitive companies that are 
moving towards sustainable business models, while allowing others to catch up to the standards 
expected. 

The Commission is fully committed to facilitate the negotiations between co-legislators to reach 
a swift agreement within the scope and aims of the omnibus proposal, to produce tangible and 
practical benefits for businesses, including SMEs and farmers, and public authorities.  

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