EurEau supports efforts to simplify administrative burdens in environmental legislation, but not at the expense of sustainability and environmental protection. Simplification should focus on removing genuinely excessive requirements and improving administrative processes, while preserving the core objectives set out in the European Green Deal and reaffirmed in the Water Resilience Strategy.
Proposals to remove measures ensuring the traceability of chemicals in industry and products, as well as those quantifying water use in factory farming, risk undermining authorities’ ability to identify and address threats to water resources. This could have direct consequences for public health, water services, and the EU’s broader objectives, including improving water efficiency and advancing a competitive circular economy.
EurEau therefore calls on co-legislators to reject these elements of the Commission’s proposals and ensure that simplification strengthens, rather than weakens, environmental policy effectiveness.
You can read our recommendations here.