Better Regulation Practices across the European Union

Better Regulation Practices across the European Union
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9264311734

Laws and regulations affect the daily lives of businesses and citizens. High-quality laws promote national welfare and growth, while badly designed laws hinder growth, harm the environment and put the health of citizens at risk. This report analyses practices to improve the quality of laws ...

Ensuring Effective Regulation in the EU

Ensuring Effective Regulation in the EU
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006-04-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780104008515

This report is a follow-up to the Committee's 9th report of session 2005-06 (HL paper 33, ISBN 0104007427). It includes the Government's response to that report (appendix 1), but also looks at developments during the UK presidency, and agreements and proposals to be carried forward in the Austrian and Finnish presidencies. Appendix 3 contains the text of "Advancing better regulation in Europe - a joint UK, Austrian and Finnish presidency discussion paper", issued in December 2005. Other sections of the report cover national level action in the UK, including the Davidson Review - examining the issue of UK over-implementation of EU legislation - and the work of the Better Regulation Task Force (now superseded by the Better Regulation Commission).

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264805907

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union

Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union
Author: Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9289071931

People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.

The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees Etc. ) Regulations 2019

The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees Etc. ) Regulations 2019
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780111191606

Enabling power: European Communities Act 1972, s. 2 (2) & Finance Act 1973, s. 56 (1). Issued: 10.12.2019. Sifted: -. Made: 03.12.2019. Laid: -. Coming into force: 14.12.2019. Effect: S.I. 2000/3323; 2004/1404, 1684; 2006/182, 183, 2695, 3247, 3249, 3260; 2007/2078, 2785; 2009/463; 2011/1197; 2013/2033; 2015/350, 1782; 2018/289, 731, 1275, 1164 amended & S.I. 2018/575 partially revoked & S.I. 2006/3472 revoked. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S/NI. General. EC note: These Regulations implement and enforce Regulation (EU) 2017/625 (OJ No. L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1) on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products ("the EU Regulation") except as regards certain provisions of that Regulation

The European Fund for Strategic Investments: The Legacy

The European Fund for Strategic Investments: The Legacy
Author: European Investment Bank
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9286148151

The inside story of the European Fund for Strategic Investments from 2015 to 2020 told through interviews with the Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director, members of the Investment Committee and final beneficiaries across Europe. The architects of this €500 billion-plus programme, the head of the EU bank and the president of the European Commission, describe the genesis of this financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe. Then the people who ran one of the biggest economic stimulus programmes in history detail how they did it—and what the lessons are for policymakers responding to new crises, including the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Fund for Strategic Investments has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. It has gone well beyond its highly ambitious target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. The Juncker Plan has made a strong contribution to the 14 million jobs created in the EU between 2015 and 2020. It has become a success in co-financing projects that otherwise might not have been carried through. It has also charted the path towards new ways of financing. This is not only the case in relatively conventional areas, such as infrastructure, but also in sectors like research and innovation or the contribution to climate change mitigation. This is exactly what makes EFSI so ground-breaking: responding to the needs of the market through continuous financial innovation. The principle of the European Fund for Strategic Investments is here to stay. It has paved the way for its successor, the InvestEU programme, which is to be deployed under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework. This publication details why the programme was such a success.

The Enforcement of EU Law and Values

The Enforcement of EU Law and Values
Author: András Jakab
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191063517

It is clear that the current crisis of the EU is not confined to the Eurozone and the EMU, evidenced in its inability to ensure the compliance of Member States to follow the principles and values underlying the integration project in Europe (including the protection of democracy, the Rule of Law, and human rights). This defiance has affected the Union profoundly, and in a multi-faceted assessment of this phenomenon, The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States' Compliance, dissects the essence of this crisis, examining its history and offering coping methods for the years to come. Defiance is not a new concept and this volume explores the richness of EU-level and national-level examples of historical defiance – the French Empty Chair policy–, the Luxembourg compromise, and the FPÖ crisis in Austria - and draws on the experience of the US legal system and that of the integration projects on other continents. Building on this legal-political context, the book focuses on the assessment of the adequacy of the enforcement mechanisms whilst learning from EU integration history. Structured in four parts, the volume studies (1) theoretical issues on defiance in the context of multi-layered legal orders, (2) EU mechanisms of acquis and values' enforcement, (3) comparative perspective on law-enforcement in multi-layered legal systems, and (4) case-studies of defiance in the EU.

Towards an Effective European Single Market

Towards an Effective European Single Market
Author: Michael Kaeding
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3531196847

If the European Union and its Member States are to compete successfully in an increasingly aggressive global market, whilst many other economies continue to get stronger, all parts of the European Union, Member States and the EU institutions, have to regulate smarter. The answer therefore is not to give up on rules, but rather to develop and implement good quality rules. Presenting both timely and relevant forms of European policy instruments in the field of financial services, public administration, transport, working conditions and social protection, this volume shows which kind of policy instruments work and under what circumstances. This will help all to overcome many of the impediments to using alternative policy instruments at the European level as appropriate responses to pressing European and global governance challenges, such as efficiency, accountability, transparency and legitimacy.

Co-regulation of the Media in Europe

Co-regulation of the Media in Europe
Author: European Audiovisual Observatory
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This publication is based on the discussions of a workshop organised by the European Audiovisual Observatory in September 2002, in collaboration with the Institute of European Media Law and the Institute for Information Law. It examines co-regulation as an alternative to traditional forms of media regulation (parliamentary acts, EU directives etc) in Europe, current examples of its use and possible areas of application, characteristics and legal requirements, benefits and risks associated with it. Topics discussed include: a comparison of co-regulation systems in relation to self-monitoring and self-regulation regimes, protection of human dignity, distribution of racist content, technical standards, the EU legal and policy framework, the Council of Europe approach, the implementation and enforcement of co-regulation codes in a transfrontier context, example texts for self-regulation and co-regulation in advertising, youth protection, hate speech, the independence of journalists and technical standards.