Better regulation practices in national parliaments

- Publisher:
- European Union Publications Office
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-03
- Authors:
- Irmgard Anglmayer
- ISBN:
- 978-92-846-6555-6
Description:
Ex-ante impact assessment and ex-post evaluation are regulatory policy tools that help inform the policy-making process with evidence-based analysis. Both tools are geared towards raising the quality of policies and legislation. While Better Regulation is widely deemed a prerogative of the executive branch, increasingly, parliaments are also emerging as actors. This study sheds light on the parliamentary dimension of Better Regulation. Based on a survey, it maps the capacities and experiences of the national parliaments of all 27 European Union (EU) Member States and of 11 further Council of Europe countries in the field of ex-ante impact assessment and ex-post evaluation. The study reveals that roughly half of the surveyed parliaments engage in regulatory policy beyond classical parliamentary scrutiny mechanisms. Overall, these parliaments show a very diverse pattern in terms of drivers, types and depth of engagement. There is no 'one size fits all' approach.
Index
- List of acronyms
- Executive summary
- Methodological note
- The role of parliaments in regulatory policy
- Ex-ante impact assessment in surveyed parliaments
- Ex-post evaluation in surveyed parliaments
- Some comparative patterns in the Better Regulation practices of national parliaments
- Conclusions and outlook
- References