This Working Paper provides a clear but critical assessment of the EU's process of simplification and qualitative improvement of the 'acquis', a process originally known as 'Better Law-making', subsequently as 'Smart regulation' and, in its latest incarnation, as 'Regulatory Fitness and...

The issue of burden and cost reduction, both regulatory and administrative, has become a leitmotif that regularly appears at the table of the European Council.In this respect, the "one in, one out" regulatory compensation system, which consists of replacing any new cost linked to a legislative...