● Brussels, 12 February 2025
The Commission has adopted its 2025 work programme, outlining its ambition to boost competitiveness, enhance security, and bolster economic resilience in the EU. It builds on the commitments set out in the Political Guidelines and the mission letters sent by President von der Leyen. The work programme focuses on the flagship initiatives the Commission will take in the first year of its mandate, responding to the issues that matter most to Europeans. It reflects the need for more opportunities, innovation, and growth for our citizens and businesses, ultimately fostering a more secure and prosperous EU. The newly proposed initiatives are laid out in a dedicated annex together with the evaluations and fitness checks announced today. A Communication on Implementation and Simplification accompanies the work programme. It sets out how the Commission plans, over the next five years, to make implementation of EU rules easier in practice, and to reduce administrative burdens and simplify EU rules. It contains targets and tools to help lighten the regulatory load, boost competitiveness and resilience, and deliver fast and meaningful improvements for people and businesses. A strategic implementation and simplification agenda The 2025 work programme focuses strongly on simplification. It includes a first series of Omnibus packages and proposals designed to make EU policies and laws work better and faster to strengthen the EU's competitiveness. The first Omnibus will put forward far-reaching simplification, notably in the fields of sustainable finance reporting, sustainability due diligence and taxonomy. Other initiatives, like the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act, will streamline permit granting, authorisations and reporting requirements. A new definition of small mid-caps will lighten the regulatory load so that SMEs face less obstacles when they grow bigger. Simplification measures concerning the Common Agriculture Policy and other policy areas affecting farmers will further address sources of complexity and excessive administrative burden for national administrations and farmers. Further simplification proposals will be explored, including a possible omnibus in the area of defence to help reach the investment goals that will be set out in the White Paper, and to allow innovative companies to flourish. Moving forward together: the key deliverables of the 2025 Commission work programme Sustainable Prosperity and Competitiveness: The newly launched Competitiveness Compass will guide sustainable growth efforts, with the EU Start-up and Scaleup Strategy empowering entrepreneurs through better access to capital. At the heart of the collaborative plan for decarbonisation and competitiveness is the Clean Industrial Deal, which will pave the way towards a proposed 90% emission-reduction target for 2040. Defence and Security: Amid tensions in the geopolitical landscape, the EU is intensifying efforts to safeguard security and ensure peace, unveiling plans to build a robust future for European Defence. By investing collectively and strategically with NATO's cooperation, the EU aims to reinforce its defence industry and reduce dependencies. The Preparedness Union Strategy will enhance crisis anticipation and resilience, reinforced by initiatives like the EU Stockpiling strategy and the Critical Medicines Act to secure key resources.
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