Better Regulation Practices Across the European Union 2022.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

OECD.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union countries.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, 2022.

Summary:

Laws and regulations affect the daily lives of businesses and citizens. It is important that they are designed in a way that takes account of their social, environmental and business impacts and ensures they remain relevant in today's fast-changing context. The second edition of the Better Regulation Practices across the European Union report analyses recent developments and current practices for improving the quality of laws and regulations across all 27 EU Member States and the European Union.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and acronyms

Executive summary

Main findings and recommendations

Reader's guide

Scope of the Regulatory Indicators survey data and its use in the report

Limitations of the Regulatory Indicators survey and composite indicators

References

1 General trends and institutional settings

Introduction

Regulatory policy in the EU Member States

EU legislative process and regulatory policy in the European Union

Overview of the use of regulatory management tools in EU Member States in the development and transposition of EU legislation

EU Member States inherently engage in international regulatory co-operation within the EU and can deploy their experience beyond the EU framework

What is IRC?

Three layers of IRC of EU Member States

General State of Play in three layers of IRC practice in EU Member States

Institutional setting and regulatory oversight across EU Member States

Regulatory oversight landscape in the EU: an overview

An uneven coverage of core regulatory oversight functions in EU Member States

Oversight of regulatory management tools: RIA-only is not enough

Oversight of ex post evaluations: still lagging behind

Oversight of stakeholder consultation

RIA oversight

Regulatory oversight by parliaments in EU Member States

ROBs can help governments to maximise the benefits from regulatory reform by improving monitoring and evaluation

Better performance assessment is essential to strengthen regulatory oversight

Looking ahead: regulatory oversight for the 21st Century

Notes

2 Stakeholder engagement across the European Union

General trends in stakeholder engagement across the EU

Stakeholder engagement for the development of domestic regulations.

Policy makers in EU Member States engage and consult more systematically with stakeholders on draft regulatory proposals

and less frequently when discussing the policy problem and exploring alternative solutions

Policy makers need to inform stakeholders about upcoming consultations and provide them with enough time to participate

Consultations in EU Member States are generally open to the public

EU Member States enable stakeholders to provide feedback by providing supporting documents and consulting in different ways

Transparency and the use of comments

There needs to be more transparency when policy makers decide to not conduct consultation

Stakeholder engagement during the negotiation and transposition of EU directives/regulations

Facilitating Member States' domestic stakeholders in EU consultations

The use of stakeholder engagement by EU Member States to inform the negotiation of EU directives and regulations

The use of stakeholder engagement by EU Member States to inform the transposition of EU directives

3 The use of regulatory impact assessment across the European Union

General trends in RIA across the EU

The use of regulatory impact assessments in domestic legislation

The principle and use of proportionate impact assessment across the European Union

Exceptions to the use of RIA

Threshold tests as a method to implement the proportionality principle in EU Member States

Proportionality in the depth of the RIA analysis

Proportionality in Germany

Proportionality in Denmark

Proportionality in Estonia

Proportionality in Cyprus

The policy options considered in EU Member States' analysis

Types of impacts, costs and benefits assessed in EU Member States

Transparency of RIA procedure in EU Member States.

Requirements and practices regarding RIA for the negotiation of EU directives and regulations and for the transposition of EU directives

The use of RIAs by EU Member States to inform the negotiation of proposed EU directives and regulations

The majority of EU Member States could better use the European Commission's impact assessments to inform their negotiating position

The use of RIA to inform the transposition of EU directives

Requirements to assess gold plating

A minority of EU Member States report using the European Commission's impact assessments to inform transposition of EU directives

Use of "foreign" data in EU Member States' RIA

4 Ex post evaluation

General trends in ex post evaluation across the European Union

Ex post evaluation in EU Member States

The use of threshold tests in ex post evaluations across the European Union

Regulatory stock management across the European Union

Regulatory oversight of ex post evaluations in the European Union

Engaging stakeholders in ex post evaluations

Use of ex post evaluation in the EU legislative process

Use of the results of the European Commission's ex post evaluation by the Member States

5 Country profiles

European Union

Overview and recent developments

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece.

Overview and recent developments

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Overview and recent developments.

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ISBN:

9789264937390

9264937390

9789264608535

9264608532

OCLC:

1369669559