1. EPAN – DG meeting Directors and Experts of Better Regulation
Mondorf-les-Bains, 9 June 2005

2. DEBR in Luxembourg on 9th-10th December 2004 Main topics of the Agenda
General introduction by Mr Dieudonné Mandelkern
Implementation of the recommendations of the Mandelkern report in the new and future Member States: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Bulgaria
Future role of the DEBR: Self-assessment
Presentations by the General Secretariat and the DG-Enterprise of the EU Commission Implementation of the Inter-institutional Agreement; Simplification Action Plan; Impact Assessment; Administrative Costs; Indicators of Regulatory Quality progress
Presentation by the OECD on the recent work concerning the « Independent Regulatory Authorities » 
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3. Future role of the DEBR
The DEBR will continue to discuss two types of issues: exchange of national practices and issues at the EU level.
Overlap should be avoided.
Dialogue about issues that are not on the official EU agenda yet; the DEBR should continue to perform an information-sharing role for EU level issues.
The DEBR as an informal group should not perform a monitoring role vis-à-vis the Commission.
The DEBR does not need and should not have an official working program.
The continued sponsorship of projects by the DEBR is a useful way of progressing work between meetings.
The DEBR is an informal meeting, and should therefore not formally be tied in with Presidency planning.
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4. Future role of the DEBR
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: setting up during 2005 of a high level expert group with MS delegates.
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5. DEBR in London on 17th-18th March 2005 Main topics of the Agenda
Benchmarking Project: RIA second phase in order to compare impact assessments in different MS on the same regulation: Groundwater Directive was chosen; this project will help the DEBR to contribute towards the development of a common methodology for RIA at the European level
3 parallel sessions on the report of Working Group on Competitiveness and Growth (Simplification, IA); Domestic simplification in Italy and France; Implementation of European legislation and ex-post evaluation project
Strategic Communication for Better Regulation (Sweden and Flanders)
How to avoid Regulatory Creep (presentation by the UK BR Task Force)
Indicators of Regulatory Quality (cf. report by University of Exeter ordered by Commission, DG Enterprise)
SIGMA, joint initiative by the OECD and the EU: project to review regulatory management capacities of the new EU MS
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6. Mid-term program 2004-2005 of the DEBR
In particular, the Group will focus on the areas of:
 - Impact Assessment
- Consultation
- Simplification
- Access to Regulation
- Transposition
- Effective Structures
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7. Mid-term program 2004-2005 of the DEBR
In its work, the DEBR-group will also seek to:
  - support the strengthening of the structures, both formal and informal, for Better Regulation across the EU, including effective implementation of the Inter-institutional Agreement on Better Lawmaking;
- taking account of the enlargement of the EU, place particular emphasis on the views and priorities of the new Member States.
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8. Resolution of the DGs Maastricht 22nd-23rd November 2004
The Directors General note the positive outcome of the constructive work that the group of Directors of Better Regulation has undertaken.
They welcome the progress reported during the Irish and the Dutch Presidencies.
The Directors General express their continued interest in the activities of the DBR-group and welcome in this respect the initiative of the Luxembourg Presidency to entrust Mr Mandelkern to make an inventory of all the groups working on this subject at the European level, in order to deliver a first report on the state of play of (all) the written recommendations since November 2001.
They underline that this work has to be compatible with the scope of the activities of the EU on Better Regulation.
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9. Report Made by Dr Konzendorf and Dr Wordelmann
“to make an inventory of all the groups working on this subject at the European level, in order to deliver a first report on the state of play of (all) the written recommendations since November 2001”
State of play of all documents produced since November 2001 concerning BR: state of play of all groups (Council, Parliament, Commission), formal or informal, dealing with the BR topic, especially in relation with RIA, consultation, simplification, access and structures and indicators
Make general recommendations
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10. Next DEBR Meeting In Austria, Vienna 24th-25th October 2005
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