Proposals to overhaul and simplify the EU’s complex fee framework, under which fees would be more transparent and reflect the actual costs of regulatory services, have been hailed by the R&D-based industry federation EFPIA as a chance to make the EU regulatory system more flexible, efficient and internationally competitive.
Many aspects of the fee proposals are “well aligned” with EFPIA’s “fundamental principles of transparency, fairness & proportionality, sustainability, simplicity,...