Article by Marianne Gros: “The European Commission is now using artificial intelligence to draft new laws and simplify existing ones, it said in an annual review of progress on its ongoing simplification drive.
As part of a major plan to cut red tape and administrative costs for businesses, the EU is making deep reforms to how it creates and enforces rules on everything from tech, agriculture and migration to environmental protection and taxation.
To do that, the Commission is deploying new digital tools internally to “modernise” lawmaking. The tools aim to help its staff “identify similarities across legal acts, pointing at potential overlaps, inconsistencies or duplicates, as well as opportunities for simplification,” it said in an annual simplification report presented on Wednesday.
According to the document, the Commission is also beefing up legal training and staff to make sure new rules are not overly complex.
“Our simplification agenda is more than figures in a report. It is a story unfolding every day in the offices, factories and farms across Europe,” said EU Simplification Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis at a press conference. Small business owners are spending “less time filling in forms and more time focused on innovation and expansion,” he added.
The EU’s rulebook has been widely criticized for being overly complex and, at times, inconsistent. The Commission’s simplification drive is designed to fix this, making it easier for businesses and governments to comply with its laws by reviewing old legislation and adopting digital tools…(More)”.
