TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking back and going forward
T2 - what should the new European Commission do in order to promote evidence-based policy-making?
AU - Lofstedt, Ragnar
AU - Schlag, Anne Katrin
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - In this paper, we first give an overview of what has happened in Europe within the area of regulation over the past 5 years or so. We then examine where the new European Commission and the Parliament are with regard to evidence-based and risk-informed policy-making taking a specific look at the importance of transparency among European regulatory agencies, the calls for better regulation that were initiated by First Vice President Timmermans, and the continued mis-use of the precautionary principle. In the final section, we provide a number of recommendations on what the Commission and the Parliament should do going forward including moving away from fish bowl to science-based transparency, making the member states more receptive to science-based policy-making and strengthening the capacity of the European Commission to further promote evidence-based and risk-informed policy-making.
AB - In this paper, we first give an overview of what has happened in Europe within the area of regulation over the past 5 years or so. We then examine where the new European Commission and the Parliament are with regard to evidence-based and risk-informed policy-making taking a specific look at the importance of transparency among European regulatory agencies, the calls for better regulation that were initiated by First Vice President Timmermans, and the continued mis-use of the precautionary principle. In the final section, we provide a number of recommendations on what the Commission and the Parliament should do going forward including moving away from fish bowl to science-based transparency, making the member states more receptive to science-based policy-making and strengthening the capacity of the European Commission to further promote evidence-based and risk-informed policy-making.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84969895395&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13669877.2016.1178663
U2 - 10.1080/13669877.2016.1178663
DO - 10.1080/13669877.2016.1178663
M3 - Article
SN - 1366-9877
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Journal of Risk Research
JF - Journal of Risk Research
ER -