European Small Claims Procedure: Initial Appraisal of the Commission's Impact Assessment
This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying its proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) n°861/2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure and Regulation (EC) n° 1896/2006 creating a European order for payment procedure (COM (2013) 794), submitted on 19 November 2013. It analyses whether the principal criteria laid down in the Commission’s own Impact Assessment Guidelines, as well as additional factors identified by the Parliament in its Impact Assessment Handbook, appear to be met by the IA. It does not attempt to deal with the substance of the proposal. It is drafted for informational and background purposes to assist the relevant parliamentary committee and Members more widely in their work.
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- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business classification
- civil procedure
- civil proceedings
- consumer protection
- consumption
- cost-benefit analysis
- drafting of EU law
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- impact study
- international trade
- judicial cooperation in civil matters in the EU
- justice
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- legal expenses
- small and medium-sized enterprises
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- trade dispute