Reminder

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Practical information – Follow-up dinner of the Friends of Industry Meeting

Brussels, 25. February 2026

You will find below useful pieces of information for the Follow-up dinner of the Friends of Industry Meeting in Brussels:

Mirror room

Residence Palace Wetstraat 155 1040 Brüssel

Schedules – Please note that the dinner will start at 7 pm and end at 8:30 pm. The Minister (or State Secretary of your Member State) can be accompanied by one person.

Dinner – During the dinner, food will be provided for the delegation members in an adjacent room. Only the heads of delegation will attend the dinner itself. Please indicate if a vegetarian menu is need by your head of delegation.

Languages – The meeting language is English. However, Ministers wishing to speak in their own language can do so, giving that they come with their own interpreter. Basic interpretation equipment will be provided. Please note that no simultaneous interpretation equipment will be available.

Registration & Security – Prior to the meeting, you will have to submit information on all participant entering, this includes personal information such as name, nationality and date of birth. We would be grateful if you could send us a photo of the minister or their representative in advance. Please let us know, if there are any food allergies that we have to consider. Please provide us this information by Wednesday 18th February.

Contact – Please send the requested information in time to [email protected].

If you have any question regarding the meeting, please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected].

Looking forward to be welcoming you in Brussels,

The Friends of Industry team

Discussion paper

We note with growing concern that, despite the commitment to simplify and to ease the regulatory burden, numerous additional legislative acts are being prepared or have already been proposed by the European Commission. To foster investment in Europe, we need a clear legislative framework, with simpler rules. Regulatory needs relating to a certain issue should be addressed in a single legislative instrument. The fact that many topics are addressed concurrently in different existing and upcoming legislative acts entails many challenges for economic actors, and also for public administrations and implementing bodies. We have reached a point where even the legislators seem unable to grasp all the different rules in the various legislative acts. The consequence is a high level of bureaucracy for companies and authorities which have to monitor compliance with all these rules, some of which are actually contradictory. European industry needs the opposite: true acceleration of approval procedures through substantive simplication.

We would like to discuss:

What measures do we need at European level to achieve real legislative self-restraint?

How could a permitting Omnibus be of true value for companies?

How can the Industrial Acceleration Act (IAA) provide a stimulus for competitive and innovative industry without creating signicant cost increases for the economy?

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Practical information – Follow-up dinner of the Friends of Industry Meeting

Brussels, 25. February 2026

You will find below useful pieces of information for the Follow-up dinner of the Friends of Industry Meeting in Brussels:

Mirror room

Residence Palace Wetstraat 155 1040 Brüssel

Schedules – Please note that the dinner will start at 7 pm and end at 8:30 pm. The Minister (or State Secretary of your Member State) can be accompanied by one person.

Dinner – During the dinner, food will be provided for the delegation members in an adjacent room. Only the heads of delegation will attend the dinner itself. Please indicate if a vegetarian menu is need by your head of delegation.

Languages – The meeting language is English. However, Ministers wishing to speak in their own language can do so, giving that they come with their own interpreter. Basic interpretation equipment will be provided. Please note that no simultaneous interpretation equipment will be available.

Registration & Security – Prior to the meeting, you will have to submit information on all participant entering, this includes personal information such as name, nationality and date of birth. We would be grateful if you could send us a photo of the minister or their representative in advance. Please let us know, if there are any food allergies that we have to consider. Please provide us this information by Wednesday 18th February.

Contact – Please send the requested information in time to [email protected].

If you have any question regarding the meeting, please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected].

Looking forward to be welcoming you in Brussels,

The Friends of Industry team

Discussion paper

We note with growing concern that, despite the commitment to simplify and to ease the regulatory burden, numerous additional legislative acts are being prepared or have already been proposed by the European Commission. To foster investment in Europe, we need a clear legislative framework, with simpler rules. Regulatory needs relating to a certain issue should be addressed in a single legislative instrument. The fact that many topics are addressed concurrently in different existing and upcoming legislative acts entails many challenges for economic actors, and also for public administrations and implementing bodies. We have reached a point where even the legislators seem unable to grasp all the different rules in the various legislative acts. The consequence is a high level of bureaucracy for companies and authorities which have to monitor compliance with all these rules, some of which are actually contradictory. European industry needs the opposite: true acceleration of approval procedures through substantive simplication.

We would like to discuss:

What measures do we need at European level to achieve real legislative self-restraint?

How could a permitting Omnibus be of true value for companies?

How can the Industrial Acceleration Act (IAA) provide a stimulus for competitive and innovative industry without creating signicant cost increases for the economy?