Better Regulation

How to avoid laws that don’t work

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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

A check list for answering Better Regulation Public Consultations

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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

Some personal thoughts on the EU’s Cancer Strategy.

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Several weeks ago I went to a talk from the Commission about their Cancer Strategy.

I gave my apologies to the organiser and left early. The Commission’s representative contribution was so lamentable that I considered if this was the best the Commission could do, it would be better if they did nothing at all.

The Commission’s launched its Public Consultation on their ‘Cancer Beating Plan’ (link).

As someone who knows way too much about cancer from personal experience, and likes Better Regulation, I thought it right to share my thoughts. You can find them here and below.

 

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