Reinforced focus

"Evaluate First"/ Definiton of "evaluation"/ New monitoring provisions/ Evaluation Roadmaps/ 12 week public consultation/ Scrutiny by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board

Inform decision-making, input to strategic planning and to the design of future interventions
Organisational learning: improve design, good & bad practice, justify new initiatives
Organisational learning: improve design, good & bad practice, justify new initiatives
Why?

Transparency and accountability

Assist in efficient resource allocation
Sector-specific evaluation requirements
Legal obligation to evaluate:
Individual legal acts often provide specific evaluation provisions
Been effective and efficient

Lecture 20- Better

Regulation-6

Evaluation is defined as an evidence-based

judgement of the extent to which an intervention has:

Evaluation

Been relevant given the needs and its objectives

Been coherent both internally and with other EU policy interventions
Achieved EU added-value

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Fitness Checks
Evaluation: How?

Is like an evaluation of an individual intervention except that it covers a group of measures

which have some relationship with each other (normally a common set of objectives)
Chart Slide 44-45

The Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT): aims to make EU law lighter, simpler and less costly so that it benefits citizens and businesses

Evaluation/
Fitness Checks

REFIT: rolling programme that screens the entire stock of EU legislation on an ongoing and systematic basis to
identify burdens, inconsistencies and ineffective measures and identified corrective actions (Annex III CWP 2015)
Legislative initiatives to simplify and reduce regulatory burden
These actions include:
REFIT

Repeals and withdrawals

Evaluations and Fitness Checks

The Commission seeks stakeholder input:

Chart Slide 47

Lighten the Load Have your Say website

The REFIT Platform