Projects - Practicability and Enforceability

In order to encourage policymakers, legislators and stakeholders to devote more attention to likely problems of practicability in implementation and enforceability throughout the legislative process, with a view to anticipating and remedying practicability and enforceability problems through a pro-active approach, IMPEL has produced a practical checklist to assess the practicability and enforceability of existing and new legislation with the aim of improving the overall implementation of EU environmental...
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Drawing on the work of the IMPEL Better Regulation Cluster to develop and use a checklist on the practicability and enforceability (P&E) of legislation, the TFS Cluster carried out an assessement of the Recast of the WEEE Directive. Initially views from IMPEL members were collected via a questionnaire and on 27 April 2009 a workshop was held at the new IMPEL offices in Brussels to discuss the findings.

Participants indicated...

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The report highlights a wide range of P&E issues. The project has been careful to avoid issues of a more political nature (also of interest to IMPEL members) which should be addressed through the usual procedure of the legislators in the co-decision process. Most IMPEL members generally stressed their positive views on the changes in the Recast Proposal affecting P&E, recognizing the work that had been undertaken to achieve this leading to the streamlining of the current pieces of legislation...
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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. EU legislation, including environmental legislation, is too often not properly or fully implemented across Europe. There is real evidence of practicability and enforceability problems caused by the way legislation is designed and written and by poor implementation conditions. In order to encourage policymakers, legislators and stakeholders...
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