Legislating for Future Generations: Trends and Challenges in Impact Assessment and Anticipatory Policy-Making
EPRS Conference on Foresight and Better Law-Making | Thursday 7 March and Friday 8 March 2024
Session 1: Foresight-based law-making: how to ensure that our way of making law is fit for future generations?
Roundtable with:
Ayaka SUZUKI, Director, Strategic Planning and Monitoring Unit, United Nations
Stephen QUEST, Chair of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) and Director-General, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Timo HARAKKA, Vice-Chair of the Committee for the Future of the Eduskunta, Finnish Parliament
Trish LAVERY, Director, Policy Projects and Taskforce Office, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia
Moderator: Eschel ALPERMANN, Head of the Policy Foresight Unit, EPRS
What is this event about?
A few months ahead of the 2024 European elections and of the definition of EU priorities for 2024-2029, time has come to assess the role of the 2021 Better Regulation framework supporting co-legislators when drafting EU legislation, which for the first time included foresight in the EU legislative toolbox.
In the meantime, the EU and its Member States are faced with an unprecedented number of major challenges at geopolitical, geo-economic, climate change and democratic levels. How the EU will respond in quantitative and qualitative terms will impact the life of EU citizens and of our future generations.
By definition, foresight can in no way predict what may happen but is a convincing method to try and reduce uncertainties, analyse risks, prepare mitigation measures, be prepared for new opportunities and help decision-makers make the right choices. This conference intends to bring together experts from EU institutions and national parliaments but also from key international partners to learn about best practices and pave the way for further cooperation.
EPRS publication related to this event: The use of strategic foresight in Commission impact assessments: Existing practices and the way forward: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegDat...