Regelrådet - Årsrapport 2018

44 REGELRÅDET ÅRETS AKTIVITETER OG RESULTATER 1. Better regulation must remain a top priority for the Commission’s working agenda. 2. Early and repeated stakeholder consultation is fundamental in order to ensure that policy drafts are consistent, meet quality standards and are workable for all target groups. 3. Consultations should feature fewer pre-defined multiple-choice questions, and instead make greater use of open-ended questions. 4. Impact assessments should be required for every new or amended policy being proposed, rather than being required only when the Commission regards the potential impacts of a policy as ‘substantial’. 5. A standard for evaluation clauses should be defined, setting out how many Member States need to contribute to the future evaluation of a policy and within what timeframe. 6. The methodology for impact assessments and evaluations should be simplified, applied consistently and standardized where possible. 7. Subsidiarity and proportionality must remain guiding principles in policy-making. 8. The REFIT-platform should continue its important work and be strengthened to ensure a strong system of stakeholder consultation. 9. The role of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board in scrutinizing policies must be upheld. 10. RWE urges the parliament and the Council to step up their efforts in assessing the impacts of substantial amendments, in line with the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better law-making of 2016. REGWATCHEUROPE’S 10 PRIORITIES FOR THE EUROPEAN BETTER REGULATION AGENDA IN 2019–2024 For en fullstendig beskrivelse av de ti punktene, se www.regwatcheurope.eu.