This paper analyses the justifications and stages of the elaboration of impact studies at the European level, focusing on the various working methods, be it „impact matrix” or the „logic of intervention”, which may be adopted by law-makers, in order to improve the regulation mechanisms...

The European Commission mandated the consulting firm CE Delft to develop a framework for the internalisation of external costs and to devise a number of potential internalisation scenarios for further analysis. The results of their preliminary research are published in a CE discussion paper, and...