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Milestones on the way to Better regulation at the European Union Level
PD Dr. Götz Konzendorf, Dr. Peter Wordelmann, Dipl.-Pol. Susanne Bölck, Dipl.-Pol. Sylvia Veit
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Introduction
Shortly before 1 January 2005, the Luxembourg Presidency had taken the initiative of carrying out an inventory of all working groups on Better Regulation at the EU level, and to have a report prepared on the development and current status of all recommendations since the Mandelkern Report from 2001.
We hereby submit that report. It is in the form of an overview report and can also be used as a reference for those working in the area of Better Regulation. The extensive collection of materials in the appendix is classified chronologically and by institution.
Better Regulation, as used in this report, comprises all measures intended to improve the quality of policy formulation and/or its implementation and application. It is a more comprehensive concept than better lawmaking, which refers only to the process of lawmaking (meaning the preparation, drafting and enactment of legal acts).
The report begins with a summary that focuses on placing in context the status of Better Regulation at the EU level during 2005. The summary makes it clear that the complexity of the material both in theory and practice has increased even more since the Mandelkern Report. This is also true of the trends in institutional development. Accordingly, an overview seems necessary in order to classify and strategically orient additional activities.
The main part of the report (Chapter 4) presents the activities of the different institutional levels of the EU. The part on the European Commission (Section 4.1) focuses on both the development and the implementation of the instruments for Better Regulation, while the sections on the other institutions primarily present their recommendations in their development over time.
As briefly presented in Chapter 5, the success of Better Regulation could very well depend on its organisation at the EU level. Better Regulation is organised at the interface of policy and administration, and therefore depends on the respective rationalities and the possibilities of harmonising them. Against this backdrop, the report indicates the developmental paths available to the Directors and Experts of Better Regulation group (DEBR Group) as an informal working unit of the Ministers for Public Administration. Of special note here are the continued development and implementation of the instruments and the changing environment.
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