Impact Assessment for EMODNET

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Impact Assessment for EMODNET

• Iain Shepherd
• European Commission

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objectives

• develop a more competitive value-added industry
  for marine services based on free access to data
• improve the efficiency of public institutions
  including European marine research laboratories
  and academic bodies
• improve knowledge of the planet and reduce
  uncertainly in global change predictions

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options

• Encourage Member States to set-up and finance
  data collection and access themselves
• Member States pay for collection of data and EU
  pays for measures to ensure interoperability and
  access
• Access to data and some collection of certain
  data from the EU budget.

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comments from Impact Assessment Board

• further develop the objectives presented in the
  Roadmap and make them specific and operational.
• set out a good and logical connection between
  problem definition, objectives and the policy
  options,
• who finances what should not appear for the first
  time in the presentation of options.
• IA report needs to be sufficiently precise about
  how the various options would work.

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administrative burden and simplification

• DG MARE should consult DG ENTR about whether the
  collection of the data to which this initiative
  relates falls under the definition of
  administrative burden.
• If this is the case and if the initiative is
  expected to reduce administrative burdens (for
  companies, citizens, or public authorities), work
  will have to be done to identify what these are,
  and if they are significant they need to be
  measured using the Standard Cost Model.
• Similarly, if the initiative will lead to
  simplification, this will need to be clearly
  identified in the impact assessment.