The European Impact Assessment and the Environment
Editors: Bizer, Kilian, Lechner, Sebastian, Führ, Martin (Eds.)
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The European Commission requires an impact assessment report for any regulation proposed. This book analyzes the quality of impact assessments and discusses deficits and possible improvements. Based on 30 case studies of impact assessments, an institutional analysis of the relevant actors is conducted, which shows that there are many shortcomings, among them an incentive problem concerning desk officers in the European Commission. The book includes various articles which address controversial problems and possible solutions. It offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of impact assessment in the EC, as well as an institutional analysis of the processes involved and of the checks and balances between politicians and their administration.
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Improving the Integrated European Impact Assessment?
Pages 1-58
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Impact Assessment – Experience from the European Commission
Pages 59-72
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Views of the European Environmental Bureau on the Commission’s Impact Assessment Procedure – With a Focus on Environment
Pages 73-83
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The Proportionate Impact Assessment of the European Commission – Towards More Formalism to Backup “The Environment”
Pages 85-102
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Proportionate Impact Assessment: Discretion, Formalism, and the Undefined Responsibilities of European Decision-Makers
Pages 103-117
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The European Impact Assessment and the Environment
- Editors
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- Kilian Bizer
- Sebastian Lechner
- Martin Führ
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-11670-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-11670-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-11669-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-43278-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 152
- Topics