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Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2021/2115 and (EU) No 251/2014 as regards certain market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine…
recognises the importance of digitalisation for the simplification and effectiveness of posting declarations and stresses the importance of combating non-compliance and fraud, which lead to unfair competition for businesses and degrade the protection of workers;
underlines that adoption of the regulation should be supported in advance by a proper impact assessment, in view of the simplification objectives that the proposed regulation is seeking to achieve;
calls for the regulation to specify in more detail the type of information being requested in the standard form and for the social partners to be involved in drawing it up.