"Policy recommendations
The costs and burdens that go hand-in-hand with legislation (taxes and charges, monitoring and evaluation reports, statistics, labelling, etc.) are an intrinsic part of the democratic system. If they are abolished, this should be on the basis of a case-by-case assessment, not a bookkeeping approach.
Regulatory power, the new forms of standardisation and the strategy of systematically circumventing international rules by China and certain third states are a higher priority than the ‘one in, one out' (OIOO) approach.
Internally, a more urgent imperative is to reform the impact assessment system for European regulations and the consultation of stakeholders and the social partners.
If the ‘one in, one out' approach is implemented, there will need to be non-regression testing when any substantial burden is removed in the environmental, social, health and employment sectors."

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