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Impact assessments in other EU institutions - Impact Assessment

Impact assessments in other EU institutions

The three EU institutions have agreed on an inter-institutional 'Common Approach to Impact Assessment'pdf(39 kB) Choose translations of the previous link  (November 2005). The 'Common Approach' sets out the basic principlesfor impact assessment throughout the legislative process.

The three institutions agree that impact assessments - of Commission proposals and substantive amendments by the European Parliament and Council - should consider potential impacts across the social, environmental and economic dimensions.

The European Parliament and the Council have agreed to assess the impacts of their own ‘substantive' amendments to the Commission's proposal, and in doing so they will use the Commission's impact assessment as the starting point for their further work.
