Better Regulation

When to make an Impact Assessemnt public

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Impact Assessments improve law making. They are used for the important “Commission initiatives that are likely to have significant economic, environmental or social impacts”. They are to be used for ‘legislative and non-legislative initiatives as well as delegated acts and implementing measures’. All impact assessments and the related opinions of the Board are published online … Read more

Better Regulation comes to Chemicals

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On Friday 11th January, the European Commission launched a Public Consultation on the update to the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemical substances and mixtures (CLP) Annex. This is the regular update of substances that updates the RAC’s opinions. This is the 14th update. This is the first time the 4-week public consultation has been … Read more

The Wise Men report on Europe

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On 10 July, the European Commission published the Report ‘Active Subsidiarity: A new way of working’. The European Commission does a lot. Arguably too much. And, on top of too much, new demands from security, defence and migration are being added. The resources are not going up. They are going down. Something has to give. … Read more

10 things I learned about Better Regulation

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Yesterday, I joined a panel discussion on Better Regulation yesterday at Cosmetics Europe. Better Regulation is the most significant act this Commission has introduced. I remember the times when the Commission introduced new legislation on the basis of the Commissioner’s weekend reading. Basic quality control of proposals all too often seemed to be missing.   … Read more