Fourth Quarterly Report on the Regulatory Environment 2025

AN OVERVIEW OF REGULATORY ACTIVITY THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2025

During the fourth quarter, intensive regulatory activity was recorded, with 67 regulations adopted (33 laws and 34 by-laws), compared to 47 regulations adopted in the third quarter of this year (one law and 46 by-laws).

On the other hand, six less regulations were adopted in the period October - December compared to the same period last year. More than three quarters of all adopted acts pertain to the areas of competitiveness, taxes and non-tax levies (24), food and agriculture (15) and environmental protection (12).

During the fourth quarter, NALED, in cooperation with its members, carried out activities related to the preparation of submissions and inputs concerning amendments to existing regulations and the drafting of new legislation, the adoption and implementation of which contributed to the partial or full resolution of more than ten recommendations from the Grey Book 17. This would significantly improve the overall rate of implementation of recommendations from the Grey Book 16, bearing in mind that only two recommendations were resolved, and only partially, while in previous years an average of around twelve recommendations were resolved annually.

The fifth revised National Programme for the Adoption of the EU Acquis (NPAA) for the period 2024–2027 was adopted at the end of October 2024, with an amended plan and timeline for the adoption of legislation in 2024 and 2025, aimed at alignment with the Reform Agenda. For the fourth quarter of the year, the National Programme envisaged the adoption of 84 regulations, the majority of which related to environmental protection (40) and construction and infrastructure (22). In the period from October to the end of December, five regulations were adopted: three laws (the Law on Planning and Construction, the Law on Organic Production, and the Law on Waste Management) and two by-laws (the Regulation on Customs Preferences and the Regulation on the Alignment of the Customs Tariff Nomenclature for 2026).

During the fourth quarter of 2025, representatives of the NALED Executive Office were appointed as members of three newly formed working groups, with the simultaneous continuation of activities in the 14 working groups that were formed previously.