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By Kilian Bizer, Sebastian Lechner, Martin Führ

The ecu fee calls for an impression evaluate file for any law proposed. This publication analyzes the standard of influence exams and discusses deficits and attainable advancements. in keeping with 30 case reviews of effect checks, an institutional research of the appropriate actors is carried out, which exhibits that there are lots of shortcomings, between them an incentive challenge referring to table officials within the eu fee. The publication contains a number of articles which deal with debatable difficulties and attainable options. It bargains a entire evaluation of the perform of influence overview within the EC, in addition to an institutional research of the strategies concerned and of the exams and balances among politicians and their administration.

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If the information provided by the other DGs will help to fulfil the obligation for better legislation and if the other DGs do not interfere substantially with the original intent of the lead DG, the latter will consider the ISSG’s remarks and follow them. Otherwise it can ignore recommendations and hope that the College of Commissioners will not discuss the process in detail. Due to the relatively high information costs for environmental consequences the DG Environment will act most likely according to rational rules.

Discounting was discussed openly and carried out with a rate of 4% just set by the EU in the IA to hydrogen power vehicles (SEC (2007) 1301). However, different discount rates were not applied in sensitivity tests. g. from Price Waterhouse Coopers in the case of the European Ports Policy which monetised environmental effects. This example reveals – perhaps contrary to general expectations – even greater methodological deficits in draft environmental legislation than in other legislative fields such as transport.

There are basically three different ways of testing the quality of impact assessment. The so-called content test establishes to what extent impact assessment fulfils specific procedural criteria. This test corresponds to the scorecard approach. The criteria are usually specified by corresponding IA guidelines, so that the content test investigates whether the guidelines have been adhered to. The second possibility is a results test. Here, a retrospective analysis is conducted to check whether the predictions of the IA agree with the actual developments.

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