EU Commission publish plan to improve EU lawmaking and enforcement: The Commission has published a plan to improve its law making by acting in the following five areas:
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Simplicity by design: EU laws must be easy to understand, apply and enforce. The Commission aims to embed ‘simplicity by design' into every proposal, ensuring clarity on who must act, how to comply, and the consequences of non-compliance.
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Strengthening the better regulation framework: the better regulation system sets out the principles that the European Commission follows when preparing new initiatives. It is already among the most advanced in the world. It will be further improved to enhance transparency, stakeholder engagement and efficiency.
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Regulatory deep cleaning: while the Union continues to pursue ambitious policies, it must also put its large stock of existing legislation in order. An Action Plan will tackle inconsistencies, overlapping and overly complex provisions in 12 priority areas.
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Tackling regulatory gold-plating: the Commission will help Member States identify and tackle unnecessary complexity and barriers to the Single Market where they apply stricter or more extensive requirements than those set out in EU law.
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Faster, robust enforcement: the Commission will strengthen enforcement of the Single Market rulebook in selected policy areas. A focus will also be placed on reducing the number of long-standing infringement cases.
Environmental group ClientEarth have warned that the European Commission’s Communication on Better Regulation so far fails to protect Europeans from unscientific and possibly harmful decisions, calling it a ‘missed opportunity’ to restore legal certainty, transparency and democratic safeguards in EU lawmaking, following months of rushed deregulation. View > Client Earth >
EU Council publish ‘One market-One Europe roadmap: View >
EU Commission publish table of food fraud suspicions notified by member states in March 2026: The EU Commission has published a detailed list of suspected food frauds notified by member states. The list includes meat and fish with added water, illegal ingredients and additives, anauthorised health claims, misleading origin information. March report > All reports >
European Court of Justice hears Lidl appeal against 1 million Euro fine for misdescription of pasta as Italian. The Italian Authorities had applied a fine using powers granted by the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive on the basis that misleading as to origin was an unfair commercial practice. Lidl were maintaining that if anything it was a food information matter. The court ruled that the food information Regulation did not preclude action being taken under unfair commercial practices regulation. View >
European Food Safety Authority opinion:
EU Regulations:
Use of chemicals in cosmetics: benzyl salicylate, triphenyl phosphate, ammonium silver zinc aluminium silicate, aluminium, water soluble zinc salts, acetylated vetiver oil, citral, HC Blue No 18, HC red No 18, HC yellow No.16, hydroxypropyl-p-phenylenediamine and its dihydrochloride salt and DHHB >
