Position paper - An Environmental Omnibus to boost competitiveness and foster the clean transition

The EU’s environmental rules have become increasingly complex, creating overlapping and duplicative requirements that hinder competitiveness. To ensure the success of the Clean Industrial Deal, the European Commission should simplify the following frameworks:

• Streamline environmental permitting into a single, predictable process.
• Revise the ESPR to avoid overlaps with REACH and PPWR, simplify the Digital Product Passport, and set realistic timelines.
• Accelerate the release of PPWR guidelines and secondary legislation with harmonised implementation.
• Discontinue the SCIP database and standardise EPR schemes through a central EU portal.
• Harmonise definitions and market-related terms across chemicals legislation.
• Strengthen TRIS enforcement.
• Make Batteries Regulation obligations practica and proportionate, and safe.
• Delay the new warranty label under the Empowering Consumers Directive by one year.