Month: April 2020

Scrutinising the Commission in a crisis – an example

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An interesting case on 21 April of the EP scrutinising secondary legislation in a time of crisis. The Environment Committee did their job of scrutinising an item of secondary legislation. They voted against it.   Because of the limited meetings and agenda of the European Parliament, they’ll run out of time to vote on the … Read more

Upstream – a book every Commissioner needs to read

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Upstream: HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN Dan Heath has written the book that anyone serious about bringing about change should read. I’d hope that every Commissioner, official, Politicians, NGO, and Foundation would read it. You’d think that we would focus our resources on preventing problems, rather than cleaning up the impacts. It seems that … Read more

Why a lobbyist needs to come forward with a solution

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Organisations and lobbyists love to gripe, complain and moan about Commission proposals.  Most hate to come forward with real solutions until it is too late. Experienced policymakers need ‘operational’ solutions. A good lobbyist needs to hand them over when the time is right. A new law or policy will take three to five years to … Read more

A check list for answering Better Regulation Public Consultations

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Evidence-based policymaking needs evidence. With good evidence, you are more likely to arrive at ‘timely and sound policy decisions.  Better Regulation’s public consultation gives you the opportunity to feed in evidence to the policy deliberations and change the outcomes.  You can find out what makes a good input by looking at the Commission’s own guidelines … Read more