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The European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs published an in-depth analysis at the request of the JURI Committee, looks at the use of data for the Continue Reading
The European Commission has published the 2021 Annual Burden Survey outlining EU efforts to simplify legislation. This document outlines the overarching efforts made by the Commission to simplify and modernise legislation. Continue Reading
The OECD has launched the “OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2021”. The documents bring important issues to the legislative process such as Evidence-based policy making, Regulatory impact assessment, Ex post evaluation, Rulemaking Continue Reading
Check out Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov’s new essay on how legislatures have been challenged on a global scale by COVID-19, published by the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). The author explains Continue Reading
The European Commission has published the second EU-wide Report on the Rule of Law with a Communication looking at the situation in the EU as a whole and dedicated country chapters on each Member Continue Reading
The European Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) has just published its Annual Report 2020. The Board reviews and issues opinions and recommendations on all the Commission’s draft impact assessments, fitness Continue Reading
This article argues that there is an emerging trend among the EU law-makers to release, “acts” or at least “eponymous” pieces of legislation. It also emphasizes that alphanumeric reference (e.g. Continue Reading
The National Regulatory Control Council (NKR–Nationalen Normenkontrollrates) presented the 2020 annual report “The Crisis as a Wake-Up Call: Modernise Public Services, Build on the Momentum for Digital Change, Make Legislation Continue Reading
The Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC), an advisory Non-Departmental Public Body of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, published the think piece Impact Assessments: Room for Improvement?. This paper Continue Reading
This article (in Portuguese) discusses the recent revolution in progress in the legislative drafting in Brazil, especially at the federal level. It also emphasizes important innovations in Decree 10.411/2020, such Continue Reading
