The European Impact Assessment and the Environment
The European Commission requires an impact assessment report for any regulation proposed. This book analyzes the quality of impact assessments and discusses deficits and possible improvements. Based on 30 case studies of impact assessments, an institution
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Kilian Bizer · Sebastian Lechner · Martin Führ Editors
The European Impact Assessment and the Environment
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Editors Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer Sebastian Lechner Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Faculty of Economic Sciences Chair for Economic Policy and SME Research Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3 37073 Göttingen Germany [email protected] [email protected]
Dr. Martin Führ Hochschule Darmstadt Haardtring 100 64295 Darmstadt Germany [email protected]
R+D Project (FKZ 370711100) funded with a grant from the Federal Environmental Research Plan by the German Federal Research Agency All contributions express the personal opinion of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with the opinion of the German Federal Environmental Agency
ISBN 978-3-642-11669-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-11670-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11670-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010931285 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This volume contains papers presented in a workshop of international experts in September 2008 in Berlin. The experts discussed how environmental consequences of EU legislation can be incorporated in a more effective way. In other words, this contribution focuses on the question of which measures can strengthen the consideration of environmental effects in the EU impact assessment procedure and in the subsequent legislative decision-making process. This allows drawing conclusions for the impact assessment process in Germany. This volume begins with an introductory paper (Bizer/Lechner/Führ) which served as the basis for discussion in our workshop. The questions raised in this paper are addressed by the authors of the subsequent chapters. Stephen White (DG Environment, EU-Commission) discusses the impact assessment from an internal perspective within the Commission. Pendo Maro (European Environmental Bureau) reviews the impact assessment practice from the perspective of an environmental NGO. Martin Schmidt et al. discuss the potential for more formalism to strengthen environmental issues w
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