Regulatory review - of copyright?

Thanks to the IPkat and the Patent Office for details of the forthcoming EC Commission programme of regulatory simplification. This is part of the Lisbon Programme and ties in with work I did earlier this year on the role of regulation of innovation as an alternative to IP (see previous posts).

Detailed analysis is proposed, with the end goal of recasting legislation to reduce the burdens on business and competitive by overly complex and subtely different regulation in different countries and areas. Specific reference is made to copyright. While the amount of legislation in respect of copyright certainly warrants its inclusion, there is not inconsiderable amounts of EC legislation on other IP rights. Should these not also be included?

Personally I will be intrigued to see whether recasting can indeed remove ambiguity and inconsistency (the Protocol to the EPC being a prime example of how guidance does not produce consistency if different decision makers are involved.)