Chapter 1 – General principles of ‘better regulation’ *
- TOOL #1. Principles, procedures & exceptions
- TOOL #2. The regulatory fitness programme (REFIT) and the Fit for Future Platform
- TOOL #3. Role of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board
- TOOL #4. Evidence-informed policymaking
- TOOL #5. Legal basis, subsidiarity and proportionality
- TOOL #6. Planning and validation of initiatives
Chapter 2 – How to carry out an impact assessment *
- TOOL #7. What is an impact assessment and when it is necessary
- TOOL #8. What steps should be followed for an impact assessment?
- TOOL #9. Spending programmes, financial instruments and budgetary guarantee
- TOOL #10. Treaty-based social partner consultations and initiatives
- TOOL #11. Format of the impact assessment report
- TOOL #12. How to apply proportionality to impact assessments
- TOOL #13. How to analyse problems
- TOOL #14. Risk assessment and management
- TOOL #15. How to set objectives
- TOOL #16. How to identify policy options
- TOOL #17. The choice of policy instruments
Chapter 3 – Identifying impacts in evaluations, fitness checks and impact assessments
- TOOL #18. Identification of impacts
- TOOL #19. Sustainable development goals
- TOOL #20. Strategic foresight for impact assessments and evaluations
- TOOL #21. Sectoral competitiveness
- TOOL #22. Research and innovation
- TOOL #23. The ‘SME test’
- TOOL #24. Competition
- TOOL #25. Internal market
- TOOL #26. Prevention of fraud
- TOOL #27. External trade and investment
- TOOL #28. Digital-ready policymaking
- TOOL #29. Fundamental rights, including the promotion of equality
- TOOL #30. Employment, working conditions, income distribution, social protection and inclusion
- TOOL #31. Education and training, culture and youth (ETCY)
- TOOL #32. Health impacts
- TOOL #33. Consumers
- TOOL #34. Territorial impacts
- TOOL #35. Developing countries
- TOOL #36. Environmental impacts
- TOOL #37. Customs enforcement of sectoral prohibitions and restrictions at EU borders
Chapter 4 – Compliance, implementation and preparing proposals
- TOOL #38. Compliance promotion and verification tools
- TOOL #39. Compliance assessment: explanatory documents, transposition and conformity checks
- TOOL #40. Drafting the explanatory memorandum
- TOOL #41. Guidance documents containing legal interpretation of EU law
- TOOL #42. Delegated and implementing acts
Chapter 5 – Monitoring the application of interventions
- TOOL #43. Monitoring arrangements and indicators
- TOOL #44. Legal provisions on monitoring and evaluation
Chapter 6 – How to carry out an evaluation and fitness check
- TOOL #45. What is an evaluation and when it is required
- TOOL #46. Designing the evaluation
- TOOL #47. Evaluation criteria and questions
- TOOL #48. Conducting the evaluation
- TOOL #49. Format of the evaluation report
- TOOL #50. ‘Back-to-back’ evaluations and impact assessments
Chapter 7 – Stakeholder consultation
- TOOL #51. Consulting stakeholders
- TOOL #52. Consultation strategy
- TOOL #53. Conducting consultation activities
- TOOL #54. Analysing data and informing policymaking
- TOOL #55. Horizontal matters – publication of responses, data protection, access to documents and transparency register
Chapter 8 – Methodologies for analysing impacts in impact assessments, evaluations and fitness checks
- TOOL #56. Typology of costs and benefits
- TOOL #57. Methods to assess costs and benefits
- TOOL #58. EU Standard Cost Model
- TOOL #59. Cost estimates and the ‘one in, one out’ approach
- TOOL #60. Baselines
- TOOL #61. Simulation models
- TOOL #62. Multi-criteria decision analysis
- TOOL #63. Cost-benefit analysis
- TOOL #64. Discount factors
- TOOL #65. Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
- TOOL #66. Life cycle assessment
- TOOL #67. Data identification for evaluation and impact assessment
- TOOL #68. Methods for evaluating causal effects
- TOOL #69. Emerging methods and policy instruments
Appendix – Competitiveness check *
* indicates new or updated elements