March 24, 2026

B9+ Calls for Ambitious Simplification of EU Digital & AI Rules

The Digital and AI Omnibus must deliver immediate simplification and legal clarity while laying the foundation for a continuous, evidence-based simplification agenda through the Digital Fitness Check. Only by reducing unnecessary burdens, removing overlaps and ensuring a coherent, risk-based digital rulebook can Europe strengthen its competitiveness, resilience and technological capacity.

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B9+ strongly welcome the European Commission’s commitment to further simplification through the Digital Fitness Check, which will be essential to identify inconsistencies, overlaps, and unintended burdens across EU digital legislation. The interplay between any proposed new laws and existing rules must work with, not against, innovation and the goal of EU-competitiveness.

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Länderna med i B9+

The D9+ is a Ministerial forum of likeminded and digitally progressive EU Member States. The B9+ Group is a grass-roots coalition of the main national business confederations of 12 D9+ Member States: CEOE (Spain), VBO-FEB (Belgium), SPCR (Czech Republic), DI (Denmark), EE (Estonia), EK (Finland), Ibec (Ireland), FEDIL (Luxembourg), VNO-NCW (Netherlands), LEWIATAN (Poland), CIP (Portugal) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Sweden).

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