Recital 1

(1)Community policies on better regulation, in particular those set out in the two Communications from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled respectively ‘A strategic review of Better Regulation in the European Union’, of 14 November 2006, and ‘Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burdens in the European Union’, of 24 January 2007, stress the importance of reducing the administrative burdens imposed on enterprises by existing legislation as a crucial element for improving the competitiveness of such enterprises and for achieving the objectives of the Lisbon agenda.