Guidesi: '28th regime also for companies already on the market'

"A great opportunity, which, however, in order to fully grasp it, must also be extended to existing companies". For Guido Guidesi, Councillor for Economic Development of the Lombardy Region, the European Commission's project on the launch of a new single and simplified legal regime for companies, while going in the right direction, must be made pervasive. Not limiting it, as in the current hypothesis announced by Ursula von der Leyen in mid-March, only to new business initiatives.

The basic idea behind this initiative, Eu Inc, a set of rules that will make up the so-called 28th regime, + to make the European Union a more integrated, attractive and competitive space, capable of fostering the birth and growth of innovative enterprises.

Thanks to a more harmonised and simplified regulatory framework, Brussels aims to overcome existing barriers in the single market, to achieve its completion and to stimulate the innovation of start-ups and scale-ups in the Continent. A strategy drawn up taking into account both the Letta Report on the future of the single market and the Draghi Report on the competitiveness of the Union, a scheme that would allow new companies in each country to be set up with a few online procedures managed in 48 hours, with a cost limited to 100 euros.

'If we stop at that,' Guidesi explains, 'that is to say, what was presented at the press conference, it is simplified, but only in part. More would be needed to allow companies that are already in the European context from a product or service point of view to tap into that regime. So that they can gravitate to an environment where there is the same legal regime, the same regulation on labour relations or the same tax regime. This would give a push to compete using the same tools and conditions, thus playing on a level playing field. By focusing on quality products or services, an area in which Lombardy companies can play a leading role'.

The scheme proposed so far envisages the adoption of a regulation rather than a directive, with the advantage of becoming immediately operational and not being bound to variable-geometry transposition within the legislations of the 27 EU member states.