Translation of "allégement des formalités " (French → English) :

Cutting red tape for business is a clear priority and the cumbersome and costly exequatur process that is required to recognise and enforce a judgment in another jurisdiction should systematically be consigned to history whilst maintaining the necessary safeguards.

Finally, the Commission will launch a major information and awareness raising campaign in the run up to full market opening in July 2007, and intends to develop an Energy Customers' Charter to (i) tackle fuel poverty, (ii) improve the minimum level of information available to citizens to help them choose between suppliers and supply options (iii) reduce red tape when customers change supplier and (iv) protect customers from unfair selling practices in compliance with the relevant EC directives.

The Commission is currently engaged in exploring new approaches to selection procedures, with a view to reducing the administrative burden, better focussing the calls for proposals and facilitating access to funding for small NGOs.

However, IDABC also contributes indirectly by increasing the efficiency in exchange of data between Member States and cutting red tape for businesses and citizens.

However, IDABC also contributes indirectly by increasing the efficiency in exchange of data between Member States and cutting red tape for businesses and citizens.

With a view to simplifying the measures aimed at easing the burden of VAT compliance on taxable persons who have no establishment in the Member State where they are carrying out activities, the Commission proposes six concrete measures via three separate legislative amendments: introduction of the one-stop scheme for non-established taxable persons; introduction of a one-stop scheme to modernise the refund procedure; harmonisation of the scope of the goods and services for which Member States may apply restrictions to the right to deduct; extension of the use of the reverse charge mechanism for certain business-to-business (B2B) transactions carried out by non-established taxable persons; review of the special scheme for small traders; ...[+++] and simplification of the distance selling arrangements.