Better Regulation

The Commission runs a lot of public consultations. You can follow them here.  Running public consultations make sense. Officials can get access to evidence that they may have missed.  I’ve always liked the process. It is  a means to address the Hayekian problem of knowledge. Officials can source information from hundreds of milllions of European … Read more

There is one book you need to read if you work in risk regulation: Cass Sunstein’s ‘Risk and Reason‘. If you don’t have a copy, or have it, but have not digested and noted every page, you are like a preacher who does not own a copy of the Bible, let alone read the good … Read more

The other day I looked at a smart technique the Commission used to prepare legislation. The technique allows the Commission to prepare and adopt good quality and effective public policy and legislation. For a long time in air pollution, the Commission crowdsourced solutions from across the commission, governments, experts from industry and NGOs, and international … Read more

Evidence-based policymaking needs evidence. With good evidence, you are more likely to arrive at ‘timely and sound policy decisions.  Better Regulation’s public consultation gives you the opportunity to feed in evidence to the policy deliberations and change the outcomes.  You can find out what makes a good input by looking at the Commission’s own guidelines … Read more