The European Impact Assessment and the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Improving the Integrated European Impact Assessment?

   • Kilian Bizer, Sebastian Lechner, Martin Führ

   Pages 1-58

3. Impact Assessment – Experience from the European Commission

   • Stephen White

   Pages 59-72

4. Views of the European Environmental Bureau on the Commission’s Impact Assessment Procedure – With a Focus on Environment

   • Pendo Maro

   Pages 73-83

5. The Proportionate Impact Assessment of the European Commission – Towards More Formalism to Backup “The Environment”

   • Michael Schmidt, Eike Albrecht, Hendrike Helbron, Dmytro Palekhov

   Pages 85-102

6. Proportionate Impact Assessment: Discretion, Formalism, and the Undefined Responsibilities of European Decision-Makers

   • Clive George

   Pages 103-117

7. Multi-Criteria Analysis for Policy Evaluation

   • Martin Drechsler

   Pages 119-129

8. Conclusions

   • Kilian Bizer, Sebastian Lechner, Martin Führ

   Pages 131-137

9. Back Matter

   Pages 141-152

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This volume contains papers presented in a workshop of international experts in September 2008 in Berlin. The experts discussed how environmental consequences of EU legislation can be incorporated in a more effective way. In other words, this contribution focuses on the question of which measures can strengthen the cons- eration of environmental effects in the EU impact assessment procedure and in the subsequent legislative decision-making process. This allows drawing conclusions for the impact assessment process in Germany. This volume begins with an introductory paper (Bizer/Lechner/Führ) which served as the basis for discussion in our workshop. The questions raised in this paper are addressed by the authors of the subsequent chapters. Stephen White (DG Environment, EU-Commission) discusses the impact assessment from an int- nal perspective within the Commission. Pendo Maro (European Environmental Bureau) reviews the impact assessment practice from the perspective of an en- ronmental NGO. Martin Schmidt et al. discuss the potential for more formalism to strengthen environmental issues within impact assessments and favour a checklist.

• European Commission
• Impact Assessment
• Institutional Analysis
• assessment
• environment
• evaluation
• regulation
• research
• science and technology
• value-at-risk

• Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar, Professur für Wirtschaftspolitik und, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  Kilian Bizer, Sebastian Lechner

• FH Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  Martin Führ

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