The EU Water Blueprint: Assessing the policy options

The Water Blueprint proposes action to address 12 key problems for Europe’s waters. An IEEP led study found that improved guidance, information system, data exchange and funding were the best instruments to address many of these problems, with limited scope for new law.

The Waste Shipment Regulation – practical and enforceable?

The Waste Shipment Regulation is a major challenge for Member States to implement. IEEP gathered the views and experience of IMPEL members on its practicability and enforceability, to help inform any future legislative development and aid competent authorities to work together to enhance their implementation of the Regulation.

EU waste law and better compliance: a journey into the unknown

The EU needs to make a big push to secure better compliance with existing waste law. Non-implementation of EU waste law endangers human health and the environment, distorts competition, and is estimated to cost a total of €90 billion a year.

EU waste law: the challenge of better compliance

Waste management in the EU is improving, but implementation by the Member States of EU waste legislation remains patchy. This paper makes suggestions on how better compliance could be achieved.

Benefit Assessment Manual for Policy Makers: Assessment of Social and Economic Benefits of Enhanced Environmental Protection in the ENPI countries

This benefit Assessment Manual, originally for internal use, has been turned into a Benefit Assessment Manual for policy makers and experts for wider dissemination and provides an understanding of the methodologies applied for the country benefit assessments.

Independent review of the EU Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Regulations

This review highlights the potential of the EU IUU Regulation to deter illegal fishing and the challenges during the first 18 months of implementation.

The Impact of Better Regulation on EU Environmental Policy under the Sixth Environment Action Programme

A part of a series of strategic analyses evaluating the Sixth Environment Action Programme this report evaluates how Better Regulation approaches have shaped the implementation of the objectives set out in the 6EAP in the process of their translation into legislative measures...

Better Regulation in the Context of Environmental Enforcement

Better regulation is a major challenge and opportunity for environmental regulators.Regulators need to approach better regulation across the whole of the regulatory cycle, from legislative development ...

EVIA Policy Paper: Improving the Practice of Impact Assessment

The EVIA project analysed Impact Assessment procedures and practices in the European Union and all Member States. It is based on 27 country studies, a detailed analysis of 22 concrete policy proposals ...

Developing a Checklist for Assessing Legislation on Practicability and Enforceability

In the policy debate on better legislation at the European and national level, there is a growing consensus on the need to address the implementation deficit...

Report on Simplifying Environmental Regulations available

On 22 June the European Commission hosted a conference on measures undertaken by Member States to simplify environmental regulation. This included the launch of a major new report by IEEP and Ecologic ...

Streamlining and simplification of environmental related regulatory requirements for companies: final report of the BEST group

In this study for the European Commission IEEP, with Ecologic, examines the approaches of European governments in lowering costs on businesses imposed through Environmental Law's various administrative ...

Green Foundations: Better Regulation and a Healthy Environment for Growth and Jobs

Future economic prosperity and high environmental and social standards must go hand in hand, according to a new report launched in the House of Commons (UK) on 6 June 2006. Commissioned by the Aldersgate ...

Conference on simplification of environmental regulation

The European Commission is hosting a conference on 22 June in Brussels examining best practices in the Member States of initiatives which will streamline and simplify environment-related regulatory requirements ...

Exploration of options for the implementation of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) for environmental policy: Executive Summary

This report is one of three outputs from the IEEP/Ecologic project exploring the options for applying OMC to Community environment policy. It was commissioned by the Dutch Environment Ministry (VROM) due ...

Exploration of options for the implementation of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) for environmental policy: Final Report – Part A (Main Report)

This report is one of three outputs from the IEEP/Ecologic project exploring the options for applying OMC to Community environment policy. It was commissioned by the Dutch Environment Ministry (VROM) due ...

Exploration of options for the implementation of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) for environmental policy: Final Report – Part B (Case Studies)

This report is one of three outputs from the IEEP/Ecologic project exploring the options for applying OMC to Community environment policy. It was commissioned by the Dutch Environment Ministry (VROM) due ...

For Better or for Worse? The EU's 'Better Regulation' Agenda and the Environment

There are many different interpretations of ‘better regulation’. For some it simply means ‘less’ regulation, for others ‘cheaper’ regulation, while for yet others ‘more effective’ or ‘efficient’ regulation. ...

Environmental Policy Integration in Europe: Administrative Culture and Practices