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Quality analysis of European Commission impact assessments
This study provides an analysis of the quality of European Commission ex-ante impact assessments (IAs) published between December 2019 and November 2024, following their appraisal by the Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Unit (IMPA) of the European Ϸվary Research Service (EPRS). Drawing on a review of 143 initial appraisals of Commission IAs, the study analyses them according to quality criteria stemming from the Commission's Better Regulation Guidelines, European Ϸվ resolutions and the Ϸվ's ...
Review clauses in EU legislation adopted during the second half of the ninth parliamentary term (January 2022-September 2024) - A Rolling Check-List
Reviews of existing legislation provide an evidence-based assessment of the performance of policies and legislation. Review findings support political decision-making and inform the design of possible future revisions. The systematic review of legislation has become a key policy-making tool at the EU level, most notably in the context of the EU's better regulation agenda. This rolling check-list has been published periodically since 2014. It contributes to the European Ϸվ's scrutiny of the ...
European Commission follow-up to European Ϸվ requests 2022–2024
This is the third edition of a study on the European Commission's follow-up to European Ϸվ requests as expressed in non-legislative resolutions based either on ordinary own-initiative reports (INIs) or on Article 225 TFEU legislative-initiative reports (INLs). Analysing the Commission's replies in formal follow-up documents (for INIs) and in letters in reply to legislative-initiative reports (INL), this joint DG PRES and DG EPRS project seeks to support the European Ϸվ's scrutiny ...
Looking back at 10 years of parliamentary scrutiny in the Banking Union
This briefing presents a summary of 3 studies prepared by academic expert panel for the Banking Union on the occasion of 10 years of parliamentary scrutiny over key authorities within the Banking Union, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Board (SRB). It also presents proposals for enhancing the accountability framework governing these authorities. These studies were requested by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) of the European Ϸվ.
Discharge for the 2022 budget: European Council and Council
In April 2024, the European Ϸվ decided to postpone its decision on granting discharge to the European Council and the Council for the 2022 budget owing to a number of critical observations. Ϸվ's Committee on Budgetary Control has re-examined the situation but, given the Council's lack of willingness to cooperate on the discharge procedure, it cannot take an informed decision. It therefore recommends in this second and final report not to grant discharge to the two institutions. Since ...
Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate: Maroš Šefčovič – Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency
Maroš Šefčovič has served as the European Commission's Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight since August 2023. This portfolio included overseeing the EU's relations with the United Kingdom, Andorra, Iceland, Monaco, Norway, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Switzerland. A long-serving member of the European Commission, from 2019 to 2023, Šefčovič was the Commission's Vice-President for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight. From 2014 to ...
Impact assessment and European added value work during the ninth legislative term, 2019 - 2024
Better law-making has grown significantly in importance in recent years. As a methodology, its purpose is to design and to decide on regulation that is fit for purpose. This is achieved through a set of measures applied at all stages of the policy cycle, starting from agenda-setting, policy design and consultation, through to the actual moment of decision-making by the co-legislators. It also includes the phase of ex-post evaluation, when, after a period of transposition and implementation, the laws ...
Ϸվary scrutiny of the SRB - Discretion in applying the resolution objectives and mechanisms for accountability to Ϸվ
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) possesses statutory, formal independence by law, and its decisions are guided by a set of objectives whose application requires interpretation and trade-offs. The resulting discretion is balanced by accountability to the EU Institutions, and in particular, to the European Ϸվ. To support parliamentary scrutiny of the SRB during the 10th parliamentary term, this briefing presents the provisions on accountability in the SRB’s founding legislation and analyses ...
Single Resolution Board: Accountability arrangements (9th parliamentary term)
This document provides an overview of public hearings and exchange of views with the Chair of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) in the ECON Committee since July 2019. It also provides an overview of all external papers requested by the ECON Committee by a standing panel of banking experts. Lastly, the annex contains an overview of the respective legal bases for these hearings as part of the accountability framework of the SRB. For an overview of public hearings during the 8th parliamentary term, ...
Economic Dialogue with the other EU Institutions under the European Semester Cycles during the 9th legislative term - State of play April 2024
This document provides an overview of Economic Dialogues with the other institutions of the European Union that has taken place in the competent committee(s) of the European Ϸվ since September 2019 under the European Semester for economic policy coordination. It also lists the Recovery and Resilience Dialogues with the European Commission as undertaken by the competent committee(s) since the entry of force of the Recovery and Resilience Facility in 2021. It also includes an overview of the ...