# Implementation, Simplification & Better Regulation

Canonical URL: https://digital-acquis.eu/policy-priority/implementation-simplification-and-better-regulation

Entry type: policy priority

Source edition current through: 17 July 2026 (2026-07-17). This is not a page modification date.

## Overview

Turning rules into results by streamlining and codifying the acquis, cutting administrative costs, stress-testing SME and competitiveness impacts, ensuring uniform enforcement, embedding digital-by-default and once-only implementation, and improving the quality and constitutional discipline of EU lawmaking.

## Related strategies

- [Startup and Scaleup Strategy](<https://digital-acquis.eu/strategy/startup-and-scaleup-strategy>)
- [Single Market Strategy](<https://digital-acquis.eu/strategy/single-market-strategy>)
- [Implementation and Simplification](<https://digital-acquis.eu/strategy/implementation-and-simplification>)

## Related initiatives

- [Simplification Platform (High-Level Expert Group)](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/simplification-platform-high-level-expert-group>) — status: not recorded.
- [A Simpler, Clearer and Better Enforced EU Rulebook](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/a-simpler-clearer-and-better-enforced-eu-rulebook>) — status: delivered.
- [Regulatory Deep Cleaning Action Plan](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/regulatory-deep-cleaning-action-plan>) — status: not recorded.
- [European Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/european-commissioner-for-implementation-and-simplification>) — status: not recorded.
- [Administrative Burden Reduction Targets of 25/35%](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/administrative-burden-reduction-targets-of-25-35>) — status: ongoing.
- [Annual Enforcement and Implementation Progress Reports](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/annual-enforcement-and-implementation-progress-reports>) — status: ongoing.
- [Better Regulation Guidelines Update](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/better-regulation-guidelines-update>) — status: forthcoming.
- [Digital Fitness Check](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/digital-fitness-check>) — status: forthcoming.
- [EU Treaty Change](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/eu-treaty-change>) — status: ongoing.
- [Greater Focus on the Subsidiarity and Proportionality Principles](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/greater-focus-on-the-subsidiarity-and-proportionality-principles>) — status: ongoing.
- [Implementation Strategies and Dialogues for all Laws](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/implementation-strategies-and-dialogues-for-all-laws>) — status: ongoing.
- [Innovation Stress Test for Member States](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/innovation-stress-test-for-member-states>) — status: forthcoming.
- [Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Lawmaking Update](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/interinstitutional-agreement-on-better-lawmaking-update>) — status: forthcoming.
- [Methodology for the Co-Legislators’ Amendment Assessment](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/methodology-for-the-co-legislators-amendment-assessment>) — status: forthcoming.
- [More strategic Enforcement against Non-Implementation and unlawful Gold-Plating](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/more-strategic-enforcement-against-non-implementation-and-unlawful-gold-plating>) — status: ongoing.
- [Reality Checks](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/reality-checks>) — status: ongoing.
- [Reinforced SME and Competitiveness Checks](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/reinforced-sme-and-competitiveness-checks>) — status: forthcoming.
- [Review of National and European Agencies](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/review-of-national-and-european-agencies>) — status: forthcoming.
- [Stronger Scrutiny of Delegated and Implementing acts](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/stronger-scrutiny-of-delegated-and-implementing-acts>) — status: ongoing.
- [Well-timed evaluation clauses and the use of sunset clauses](<https://digital-acquis.eu/initiative/well-timed-evaluation-clauses-and-the-use-of-sunset-clauses>) — status: ongoing.

## Current developments

Latest updates from Digital Policy Alert and Global Trade Alert.

- [European Commission inquiry on Digital Fitness Check](<https://digitalpolicyalert.org/change/17204-digital-fitness-check-testing-the-cumulative-impact-of-the-eus-digital-rules>) — Digital Policy Alert; source updated: 2026-03-11; relationship: related context.

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