What does IMPA do It helps committees scrutinise the quality, completeness and independence of Commission Impact Assessments.
{"Image DocumentName": "What does IMPA do?It helps committees scrutinise the quality, completeness and independence of Commission Impact Assessments.", "Image ImageDescription": "How? Through an entirely new service: Initial appraisals of European Commission IAs. Systematic analysis of all incoming IAs. Identification of their strengths and weaknesses. 4-8 pages. Around 45 produced to date. Committees can decide course of action. To help committees scrutinise the quality, completeness and independence of Commission IAs, the new Impact Assessment Unit (within the new Directorate for Impact Assessment and Added Value), headed by Elke Ballon, now systematically analyses all incoming IAs and identifies their methodological (and other) strengths and weaknesses. It produces initial appraisals - usually four to eight pages long - which seek to determine whether the methodological criteria set out in the Commission\u2019s impact assessment guidelines are met, and identify any other obvious strengths and weaknesses of the Commission s IAs, so that the parliamentary committees are better able to decide, very early on, exactly how they wish to proceed. That s something entirely new. We started this process last autumn and we have so far done about 45 initial appraisals: there are normally 70 to 80 IAs from the Commission each year. We are at the height of the five-yearly legislative cycle at the moment. On the basis of these \u2018initial appraisals\u2019, the committees can then decide whether they want to take up certain issues with the Commission and/or ask the Impact Assessment unit to undertake further work, like more detailed appraisals - as the Legal Affairs Committee has recently done on auditing standards and the proposed Common European Sales Law - or ask for substitute or complementary IAs - as the Civil Liberties Committee has done on the non-discrimination directive currently blocked in Council and the Environment Committee has recently done on a directive relating to honey.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}