Impact Assessment of EU Non-Legislative Rulemaking: The Missing Link of 'New' Comitology

European Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2013

27 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2012

Date Written: November 29, 2012

Abstract

Impact assessment (IA) has gone from an innocuous technical tool typically used in the pre-legislative phase to an instrument at the heart of the European institutional machinery. However – in deviation from its roots as a tool governing delegated rulemaking in the US – most experience with IA in the EU has been gathered in a legislative context. Against the background of the recent evolution of the EU’s old ‘comitology’ system into a two-track system of delegated acts and implementing measures, this contribution discusses in three parts the ‘whys’, ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of extending IA to ‘non-legislative rulemaking’. It explores various aspects of the rulemaking process which IA – if properly applied – could strengthen: consultation, control and quality.

Keywords: EU law, Rulemaking, delegated acts, implementing measures, Better Regulation, Regulatory oversight, Judicial Review, EU Courts

JEL Classification: K00, K20, K23, K33, K40, K41, L50

Suggested Citation

Alemanno, Alberto and Meuwese, Anne C.M., Impact Assessment of EU Non-Legislative Rulemaking: The Missing Link of 'New' Comitology (November 29, 2012). European Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2178128

Alberto Alemanno (Contact Author)

HEC Paris ( email )

1 Rue de la libération
JOUY EN JOSAS, 78351
France

HOME PAGE: http://www.albertoalemanno.eu

Anne C.M. Meuwese

Tilburg University ( email )

Netherlands

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