Press Release: ‘Tell us where to cut red-tape’, Commission asks business in online consultation

The European Commission launched a public on-line consultation to ask business how they feel the business environment in the EU can be improved and administrative burden can be reduced, 1 June 2005. Through an online questionnaire, the Commission was planning to ask companies and other interested parties to identify particularly burdensome rules and make suggestions as to how best to simplify them. The consultation was open from 1 June 2005 via the Commission's 'Your Voice in Europe' Internet site. The information gathered was to be compiled and examined in the Commission's 'Red Tape Observatory' and the responsible Commission services.