1. Welcomes the Commission’s ‘top ten’ initiative a
s part of the REFIT exercise and takes note of the promise that this is not a one-off effort but should be a regular part of an ongoing screening procedure; stresses, however, that the Commission should accelerate its efforts to address the concerns about regulatory burden raised by SMEs during the consultation process; stresses also that the ‘top ten’ approach must not replace a systematic, horizontal policy approach to minimising the administrative burden stemming from EU regulation, or undermine the objectives and effectiveness of the legisl
...[+++]ation in question;