Need to follow up on proposals from reports published in 2024

Subject: Need to follow up on proposals from reports published in 2024

The EU finds itself in the early days of a new political and institutional cycle that has taken shape over the course of 2024. Also this year, important reports have been published on the multiple and complex challenges facing the EU with regard to the competitiveness of its economy (Draghi report1), the protection and consolidation of its internal market (Letta report2), the protection and modernisation of the farming sector (report on the strategic dialogue on the future of EU agriculture3) and the building of a proper capital markets union (Noyer report4).

Parliament took note of those reports and, on a number of occasions and in different formats, discussed their main findings and most meaningful proposals. Ordinary people, however, are obviously more concerned about what real-world decisions those reports may lead to.

1. How and according to what time frame will the Commission follow up on the findings of those reports?

2. What legislative initiatives does it consider a priority, whether proposals for new legislation or to alter existing legislation, as part of its follow-up to the reports’ findings?

3. How will it balance initiatives of that kind with the goal of simplifying matters and cutting red tape?

Submitted: 13.12.2024

1 https://commission.europa.eu/topics/strengthening-european-competitiveness/eu-competitiveness-looking-

ahead_en

2 https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/enrico-lettas-report-future-single-market-2024-04-10_en

3 https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/cap-overview/main-initiatives-strategic-

dialogue-future-eu-agriculture_en

4 https://www.ebf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EN-Report-Developing-European-capital-markets.pdf

Answer given by Mr Dombrovskis on behalf of the European Commission (3 April 2025)

The priorities of the new Commission are described in the Political Guidelines (1) and the Mission Letters. On 29 January 2025, the Commission presented the Competitiveness Compass (2), which is informed by the report by Mario Draghi and lays out the roadmap for the next years to increase Europe’s competitiveness.

The Competitiveness Compass identifies flagship actions and initiatives such as the Clean Industrial Deal that will further implement the priorities set out in the Compass.

The Commission has further published a communication on a European Savings and Investments Union (3), as recommended in the report by Enrico Letta.

In the first 100 days of the mandate, the Commission presented a Vision for Agriculture and Food (4) by drawing on the recommendations of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture and Food (5). Moreover, the Commission bases all its policy initiatives on solid evidence to which these reports contribute.

Any policy initiatives will take account of the findings in the Draghi and other reports and will be based on instruments — legislative or otherwise — that allow meeting the pursued policy objectives in the most effective way.

Speed, coherence and simplification will be priorities of the Commission. The Commission will screen the EU acquis to identify measures to simplify EU laws, without undermining the policy objectives, thus stress-testing the stock of EU laws.

Improved competitiveness and small and medium-sized enterprises checks will be implemented in the working methods, in all impact assessments.

The Commission will engage with stakeholders through a new consultation approach called reality checks, and each Commissioner will hold at least two implementation dialogues per year.

1 1https://commission.europa.eu/topics/strengthening-european-competitiveness/eu-competitiveness-looking-ahead_en

2 2https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/enrico-lettas-report-future-single-market-2024-04-10_en

3 3https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/cap-overview/main-initiatives-strategic-dialogue-future-eu-agriculture_en

4 4https://www.ebf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EN-Report-Developing-European-capital-markets.pdf

1 ∙ ⸱ https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/e6cd4328-673c-4e7a-8683-f63ffb2cf648_en?filename=Political%20Guidelines%202024-2029_EN.pdf

2 ∙ ⸱ A Competitiveness Compass for the EU, COM(2025) 30 final.

3 ∙ ⸱ Savings and Investments Union — A Strategy to Foster Citizens’ Wealth and Economic Competitiveness of the EU, COM(2025) 124 final.

4 ∙ ⸱ https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/vision-agriculture-food_en#:~:text=The%20Vision%20calls%20for%20devising,healthy%2C%20quality%20food%20to

%20citizens 5 ∙ ⸱

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/cap-overview/main-initiatives-strategic-dialogue-future-eu-agriculture_en