Valdis Dombrovskis

Responsibilities

Economy and Productivity

As Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Valdis Dombrovskis’s task is to ensure better policy coordination between the EU and Member States in order to support our common goals.

He is responsible for:

• making sure that fiscal rules under the Stability and Growth Pact are implemented consistently across the Member States
• leading the work to continue the implementation of NextGenerationEU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility
• ensuring that the European Semester supports Europe’s competitiveness, sustainability and social fairness
• developing a new tool to turn EU competitiveness goals into coordinated national policies
• enhancing the role of European Investment Fund to increase financing for European companies
• working on a digital euro and strengthening the international role of the euro

Read more about the EU’s economic policy and the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Implementation and Simplification

Valdis Dombrovskis is also Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification. His task is to reduce the administrative and reporting burden for both people and companies, and ensure EU rules are implemented and enforced better. 

He is responsible for:

• leading the work of the Commission to review EU law and develop proposals to eliminate overlaps and contradictions
• putting in place a new consultation approach to identify the hurdles that stakeholders face when implementing EU rules
• working to reduce the administrative and reporting burden, in dialogue with all stakeholders and EU institutions
• leading the negotiations on a renewed agreement between the EU institutions to simplify existing legislation and improve the way new laws are made
• strengthening and ensuring full compliance with the Commission’s standards for better law-making
• supporting other Commissioners to prepare their annual progress report on enforcement and implementation and to coordinate their biannual Implementation Dialogues with stakeholders

Read more about the EU’s efforts to cut red tape. 

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Transparency

Meetings and missions

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their Cabinet members publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives. Every two months, they also publish an overview of mission expenses.

• Meetings with Commissioner Dombrovskis
• Meetings with Commissioner Dombrovskis's Cabinet members
• Missions of Commissioner Dombrovskis
• Transparency during the 2019-2024 term

European Parliament hearings

Read Commissioner Dombrovskis's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire.

Declaration of interests

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Commissioner publishes a declaration of interests. A signed, authentic version is published at the bottom of this page. A machine-readable version of all declarations is also available, as required by the Code of Conduct.