Documents European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy 2 results

"This study, prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the ITRE committee, analyses the Industry 4.0 Initiative which encompasses the digitalisation of production processes based on devices autonomously communicating with each other along the value chain. It considers the potential of the initiative and business paradigm changes and impacts of this transformation. The study assesses the rationale for public intervention and outlines measures that could be adopted to increase the gains and limit the threats from Industry 4.0."

"This study takes stock of the implementation of the regulatory offsetting mechanism known as the ‘one in, one out' (OIOO) approach by the European Commission. Overall, this mechanism was found to be relevant and useful to address the issue of managing the EU regulatory burden on businesses. While there has been a clear commitment from the Commission to ensuring the OIOO approach is applied effectively, there remains scope for the Commission to increase the transparency underpinning its methodology. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)."