Paving the Way to an Improved, Modern Management of Risk: The new European Commission's Better Regulation Strategy

Meads, Richard; Allio, Lorenzo

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“…The BR toolbox is welcomed as one comprehensive set of templates to provide extensive practical guidance (Renda, 2017a; Radaelli, 2018). The BR Agenda attempts to consider both qualitative and quantitative approaches to policy impact assessment and evaluation and tries to also contemplate various regulatory quality enhancing aspects (such as social validity, behavioural insights and legal validity, Purnhagen and Feindt 2015), as well as different types of impacts (such as on competitiveness, Meads and Allio 2015).…”

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“…Firstly, there is still lack of transparency and guidance in selecting and presenting evidence (Ranchordas, 2017; Hines, 2016; Meads and Allio, 2015; De Feo, 2017). It is thus recommended to develop appropriate standards (Meads and Allio, 2015; Hines, 2016) and to make available all evidence used (Hines, 2016). Beyond this, also stakeholders should be enabled to provide evidence and to require its assessment by an independent body (Voermans, 2016).…”

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“…Authors also stress the need to consider specific aspects in the analysis. The array of suggestions is rather broad: from the need to ensure consumer protection not focusing on the ‘less protective options’ (van Schagen, 2017) to the preference of ‘regulatory options that are least restrictive, make greatest use of market forces, and promote innovation’ (Meads and Allio 2015, p. 651). Willermain and Cioriciu (2015) recommend to always take into account the case of the absence of EU legislative initiatives (the so called ‘cost of non‐Europe’).…”

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“…The BR Agenda is recognized as an advancement towards closing the policy cycle, aiming at a coherent regulatory approach (Stephenson, 2017; Kubera, 2017; Renda, 2015; Meads and Allio, 2015; Eliantonio and Spendzharova, 2017; Smismans, 2015; Broughel, 2015; Radaelli, 2018). The new Guidelines are found to be broader in scope and more user friendly than the previous ones (Nowag and Groussot, 2018; EPRS, 2015; Chase and Schlosser, 2015; Raccah, 2016).…”

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Towards an Evidence‐Based and Integrated Policy Cycle in the EU: A Review of the Debate on the Better Regulation Agenda

Giulia

Basyte‐Ferrari

Acs

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J of Common Market Studies

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Our aim is to provide an overview of the debate on the Better Regulation (BR) Agenda presented in 2015 by the European Commission. In addition to academic literature, we also consider studies and reports from Think Tanks, international organizations, and EU internal scrutinizing bodies. After presenting the main aspects of the debate on some overarching elements of the BR Agenda, we focus in particular on two highlights: evidence-based policymaking and the integrated policy cycle. We structure the discussion around main achievements, remaining critical aspects and suggestions about what could be further improved. Findings show that although the Commission remains a front-runner when it comes to Better Regulation, more efforts are needed to go the last mile when it comes to evidence-based policymaking and closing the policy cycle. We find that the great majority of arrticles welcome the ambition of the BR Agenda reform. At the same time, they also make clear that to effectively improve regulation, further methodological guidance and concrete efforts in implementation are needed. Another interesting finding is that the debate on the BR Agenda is extremely varied, covering normative as well as very technical aspects. It appears, though, to be confined within certain academic fields (namely political science, public administration, and law), while other fields that can be, in practice, also deeply linked to BR related activities are less represented.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Main Findingsmentioning

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Following the Evidence Practice: An Analysis of Evaluation Studies on EU Railway Policy

Francesco¹

2019

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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Since the end of the 1990s, scholars have been paying particular attention to the link between evidence and policy because of the rise of evidence-based policy making and better regulation in the European Union political agenda. Documents such as evaluation studies are material traces of professional practice and the knowledge production process. Through the analytical perspective of evaluation practice, this contribution has two purposes. First, it differentiates three modes of evaluation theory and practice. Second, through a systematic content analysis of 52 evaluation studies of EU railway policy, it presents an overview of general patterns in the use of evaluative theories and practice. Besides contributing to the literature of evidence and policy practice, the article provides recommendations for EU evaluation and better regulation guidelines.

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Paving the Way to an Improved, Modern Management of Risk: The new European Commission's Better Regulation Strategy

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Towards an Evidence‐Based and Integrated Policy Cycle in the EU: A Review of the Debate on the Better Regulation Agenda

Towards an Evidence‐Based and Integrated Policy Cycle in the EU: A Review of the Debate on the Better Regulation Agenda

Following the Evidence Practice: An Analysis of Evaluation Studies on EU Railway Policy

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