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
Dr. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov and his team coordinated a study of legislatures across 159 countries during the Coronavirus pandemic. The study reveals that limitations on legislatures are not determined by the Continue Reading
The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) published a new study on Better Regulation practices in national parliaments. This study sheds light on the parliamentary dimension of Better Regulation. Based on Continue Reading
The OECD recently launched a report that evaluates the extent to which the basic elements of an effective Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) system are established in the Government of the Continue Reading
This article argues that high-quality regulation is not easily achieved when rules are the result of a layered series of urgent laws and decrees. It also emphasizes that more generally, the limited Continue Reading
