MCEL Research Seminar in January

Anne Meuwese is a professor at Tilburg University where she teaches constitutional and administrative law. Within the field of public law she works on 'alternative review of government action', impact assessment, regulatory cooperation, consultation and peer review. She is interested in the actual effects that public law mechanisms have on the behaviour of government actors and in how better design of those mechanisms can improve that behaviour from the perspective of citizens. In 2008, she successfully defended her PhD in Leiden University on impact assessment in EU law making.
Here is a short abstract of the presentation she will give at the seminar:
“Impact assessment as an (inter-) institutional magic wand?

This contribution explores impact assessment (IA) as an instrument used in various settings in which different institutional actors cooperate on the production of laws and rules. For instance in the regulatory coherence chapter proposed during the negotiations for TTIP, impact assessment is put forward as a vehicle for exchanging regulatory information between the US and the EU. Also, proposals to develop EU impact assessment, currently mainly a tool for internal use by the European Commission, into a 'tripartite' instrument keep returning in the context of the negotiations on a new Inter-Institutional Agreement on Better Regulation. This would involve a greater degree of 'ownership' of the IA process on the part of the European Parliament and the Council. Finally, impact assessment could play a greater role in pre-legislative deliberations involving member state parliaments.”

You are all warmly invited to attend this event.