Reopening core environmental legislation under the banner of “simplification” poses a genuine threat to Europe’s environmental ambition.
The absence of a robust impact assessment and the experience with earlier omnibus packages reveal a clear risk: what begins as a technical exercise can rapidly become deregulation, weakening long-standing protections and placing additional strain on social enterprises working on the ground.
At a time when the EU should be strengthening its environmental acquis, not diluting it, RREUSE calls on policymakers to safeguard the integrity of environmental law and to reject shortcuts that undermine evidence-based decision-making.
