The 2024 report entitled The future of European competitiveness (the Draghi report) highlighted that the number and the complexity of rules risk limiting the room for manoeuvre for Union undertakings and preventing them from remaining competitive. A detailed analysis of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 also pointed to excessive administrative burden and costs associated with requirements introduced by Regulation (EU) 2024/2865. Based on those findings, the Commission has proposed to simplify certain requirements and procedures for chemical products. That proposal is intended, inter alia, to balance better, on the one hand, the need for labelling information to be clearly understood by consumers and, on the other hand, the need to reduce market barriers and administrative burden for industry, as expressed in the Commission Communication entitled The Single Market: our European home market in an uncertain world, a strategy for making the Single Market simple, seamless and strong. In light of that proposal, it is necessary to further defer the obligations introduced by Regulation (EU) 2024/2865 on formatting of labels, advertisements, distance sales offers and relabelling. Such further deferral would enable economic operators to prepare for changes to the formatting and labelling requirements, as well as new information requirements for advertisements and distance sales offers envisaged in the Commission’s proposal.
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