Looking back and going forward: what should the new European Commission do in order to promote evidence-based policy-making?

Ragnar Lofstedt and Anne Katrin Schlag

Journal of Risk Research, 2017, vol. 20, issue 11, 1359-1378

Abstract: In this paper, we first give an overview of what has happened in Europe within the area of regulation over the past 5 years or so. We then examine where the new European Commission and the Parliament are with regard to evidence-based and risk-informed policy-making taking a specific look at the importance of transparency among European regulatory agencies, the calls for better regulation that were initiated by First Vice President Timmermans, and the continued mis-use of the precautionary principle. In the final section, we provide a number of recommendations on what the Commission and the Parliament should do going forward including moving away from fish bowl to science-based transparency, making the member states more receptive to science-based policy-making and strengthening the capacity of the European Commission to further promote evidence-based and risk-informed policy-making.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2016.1178663

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