Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 5

   Tabled by Jorge Martín Frías, Vilis Krištopans, Filip Turek +77 · Members

   … implemented and enforced in a correct, coherent and effective way, is a Removed: shared responsibility of the EU institutions and the Member States; stresses that Removed: gold-plating of EU directives and fragmented enforcement of EU rules remain an obstacle for the single market, Added: the Commission’s responsibility for the explosion in administrative and financial rules and burdens, disproportionately burdening SMEs and Removed: start-ups; demands that the Commission ensure that EU rules are properly enforced across all of Added: start-ups, is clear and regrettable; urges the Commission to put an end to the increasing administrative burden weighing heavily on citizens and businesses, and to focus its initiatives on simplifying the regulatory framework; invites the Member States Removed: in a harmonised manner in order to address cross-border barriers; urges the Member States, therefore, to address gold-plating and to ensure that national implementing measures are published … to avoid inconsistent implementation of EU laws, while recognising the right for Added: the Member States to maintain or introduce national measures under the conditions provided …

2. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 13 a (new)

   Tabled by Jorge Martín Frías, Vilis Krištopans, Filip Turek +77 · Members

   Added: 13a. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to increase regular contact with stakeholders and practitioners in order to gather information, assess the impact of EU legislation and identify areas where changes are needed in the single market; stresses that this regular contact should effectively lead to the simplification and, where appropriate, the removal of excessive and redundant rules; considers that these opinions can contribute to effective omnibus simplification proposals; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to publish the opinions of the stakeholders collected from all the different consultation processes, in an anonymous format when there is no other option, as a way of increasing transparency in the decision-making process;

3. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 27

   Tabled by Jorge Martín Frías, Vilis Krištopans, Filip Turek +77 · Members

   … the interplay between current EU legal acts, such as the Digital Services Removed: Act9 , Added: Act9, the General Data Protection Removed: Regulation10 , Added: Regulation10, the Artificial Intelligence Removed: Act11 , Added: Act11, the Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Removed: Advertising12 , Added: Advertising12, the Product Liability Removed: Directive13 , Added: Directive13, e-commerce and cybersecurity rules, and between these acts and future legislative initiatives … serve to improve coordination between enforcement authorities across the Member States and Removed: the Commission’s internal services and to improve the ability of businesses to invest and innovate in the EU; Removed: insists that the Commission ensure that all laws adopted and enforced in the 2019-2024 Commission term are correctly and consistently implemented and applied across all of the Member States; calls on the Commission to include, where necessary and justified by impact … legal clarity and predictability for all stakeholders, without undermining agreed policy objectives; Added: calls on the Commission to refrain from proposing new legislative proposals before the fitness check has been completed; urges the Commission, in the context of the Digital Services Act review to be carried out by 17 November 2025, to assess more generally the impact of risk assessment and mitigation measures on respect for freedom of expression; 9 Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council …

4. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 36

   Tabled by Jorge Martín Frías, Vilis Krištopans, Filip Turek +77 · Members

   … their potential to lower compliance burdens, enhance consumer access to accurate information, Added: for example, through the indication of origin, and support multilingual interoperability while preserving the possibility for consumers’ products to …