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BETTER REGULATION
What is better regulation?
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Impact assessment
Issue
Integrated approach to impact assessment
Which Commission proposals are concerned?
Guidelines for carrying out impact assessments
Inter-institutional 'common approach'
Quality control
Evaluation of the Commission's impact assessment system
Consultation
Issue
Decentralised sectoral consultation
Coherent framework for consultation: Consultation standards
Institutionalised dialogue
Expertise
Issue
Governance in exploiting expertise
Core principles and guidelines
Information on available expertise
Administrative costs
Issue
EU model for assessing administrative costs of new initiatives
Measuring administrative costs and reducing administrative burdens
Choice of regulatory instruments
Issue
Regulations and directives
Review / sunset clauses
Alternative instruments
Transposition and application of EU law
Issue
Transposition of directives
Problem-solving for business and citizens
Reporting
Simplification
Issue
Rolling simplification programme
Screening of the existing stock of legislation (acquis)
Sectoral simplification
Role of the co-legislator
Role of the Member States
Screening and withdrawal of proposals pending before the EU legislator
Codification and recasting
Issue
Codification of existing EU law
Recasting technique
Consolidation
Accessibility and presentation of EU law
Accessibility of EU law
Quality of legislative drafting
Role of legal revisers
Evaluation
Issue
Evaluation as a component of Better Regulation
Inter-institutional coordination
Issue
Inter-institutional agreement on Better Lawmaking
Common approach to Impact Assessment
Other inter-institutional agreements
Member States' action
Issue
High-level group of national regulatory experts
OECD projects and other programmes