Background note on “Simplification” for the CONT hearing: “Will simplification suggested for the new MFF period bring the necessary balance between more efficient, effective and correct spending of EU funds?”
Briefing
15-06-2021
This note intends to provide general information about simplification as well as to look a bit more in detail on this issue in the framework of Cohesion Policy, Common Agricultural Policy and Research. These three EU policies represent sectors that largely benefit from the financing of the EU budget and have experienced simplification due to the response of the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council to the requests of final beneficiaries. At the same time, there have been repeated calls from the European Court of Auditors regarding these policies to reduce their complexity and further apply simplification measures, without compromising their functioning and the sound financial management of the EU budget.
Briefing
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- administrative formalities
- agricultural policy
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- common agricultural policy
- distribution of EU funding
- documentation
- economic and social cohesion
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU finance
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European construction
- European Court of Auditors
- European Structural and Investment Funds
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- executive power and public service
- Framework Programme for Research and Development
- LAW
- multiannual financial framework
- POLITICS
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- regulation (EU)
- regulatory policy
- report
- research and intellectual property
- simplification of legislation
- sources and branches of the law