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 2: How to link Foresight with Impact Assessment in Anticipatory Policy-Making?
Roundtable with:
Elisabetta SIRACUSA, Member of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board, European Commission
Suzana ANGHEL, Policy Analyst, Policy Foresight Unit, EPRS, and
Irmi ANGLMAYER, Policy Analyst, Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Unit, EPRS
Tine ANDERSEN, Expert from Danish Technological Institute
Pieter CABOOR, Director of the Legal Department of the Belgian House of Representatives [the intervention was cut at Mr Caboor's request]
Moderator: Zoltan PETHŐ, Head of the Ex-ante Impact Assessment 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.e...