If you want to get a sober analysis of a Commission’s proposal, spend some time and read the Regulatory Scrutiny Board‘s opinion(s) on it.
If you want to read them, you need to head over here to the register of documents and run a search. The opinion(s) are published when the legislative proposal is published. So, you have a bit of searching to do.
How to make them easier to be found
It would be easier if the RSB followed the same practice as they do for publishing evaluations (see here). They used to do that for opinions on impact assessments.
The Commission could publish it alone side the documents they publish when a proposal is adopted.
Maybe the Commission doesn’t want the opinions to be easily found. Some recent opinions I’ve read are brutal in their takedown of the evidence (or lack thereof) and the logic for the proposals.
To my knowledge, even when 2 negative opinions have been issued, the Commission has still adopted the proposal.