The Commission's work programme
The Commission's rules of procedure  [57 KB] provide
that the Commission defines annual priorities and adopts a work programme for each
year. The Commission’s annual work programme translates the annual policy strategy into policy objectives and an operational programme of decisions to be adopted by the
Commission. It sets out major political priorities and identifies legislative initiatives,
executive and other acts that the Commission intends to adopt for the realisation of these
priorities. The work programme sets out the concrete actions at the core of the
Commission's political delivery - the strategic priorities. In addition, the Commission
commits to develop a series of priority initiatives, to be adopted over the next 12 to 18
months depending on the depth and intensity of preparation needed to meet the quality
standards of better regulation. Each initiative will be supported by a comprehensive
assessment of its likely impacts. The Work programme also contains a list of
simplification initiatives as well as a number of proposals that the Commission has the
intention to withdraw.
More detailed programming and monitoring of Commission work takes the form of a list
of planned Commission initiatives and a list of adopted Commission initiatives. Both
contain legislative proposals to other EU institutions, major non-legislative acts and acts,
selected by the Commission, that are likely to be of interest to other EU institutions and
to the general public. They are Commission working documents and only exist in the
original version (part English and part French). Both documents are updated monthly.
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