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… 1, 2013, p.76-92; Anne Meuwese; Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking. Kluwer International, 2008; Anne Meuwese; ‘Inter-institutionalising EU Impact Assessment’, in: Stephen Weatherhill (eds.); Better Regulation. Hard Publishing, 2007. 6 regulators and trading off problems against wider distributional and economic goals. Thus, instead of being a neutral “add on” technocratic tool within the decision-making process, impact assessment is a mode of governance that transforms the view of what is the … and evaluations. 70 Most importantly, this replaced also the distinction between “preliminary” and “in-depth/extended” impact assessments ‘primarily because the required case-by-case decisions were seen to be too open for political “horse-trading”’ 71 . In other words, roadmaps were ‘essential tools for internal and external transparency of policy preparation’ 72 , which – again – were only created for initiatives included in the now so-called “Commission Legislative and Work Programme …