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DG IPOL Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies published the following documents to assist the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) in its parliamentary work.

The implementation of foresight routines will help in preparing future policies. Evidence-based foresight practices will ensure that policy-making is trustworthy and future-fit. This paper is partly inspired by the evidence-related policy issues encountered in managing the coronavirus outbreak. The Covid 19 crisis was, and remains, characterised by uncertainties and evidence that change by the hour through progressive insight. Policy-makers had to make decisions that balanced expert advice and presumed ...

On the basis of the European Commission's proposals on the CAP after 2020 published on 1st June, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and Policy Department B of the European Parliament have organise a Workshop on the "The Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020: appraisal of the EC legislative proposals" in October 2018. This Workshop was structured in three parts: 1. The CAP Strategic Plans beyond 2020 : assessing the architecture and governance issues in order to achieve the EU-wide ...

In the European Union, plant protection products, often referred to as 'pesticides', are subject to a dual approval process: active substances are approved at European Union (EU) level, provided they meet a number of criteria. Commercial plant protection products containing one or more active substances are subsequently authorised at Member State level if they satisfy certain conditions. A controversy has emerged since 2015 over the renewal of the approval of glyphosate. One of the active substances ...

The European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel, supported by the Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), decided two years ago to experiment with a process involving scenario development and assessment to explore possible future techno-scientific developments and their potential impacts, while backcasting possible future opportunities and concerns to options available to policy-makers today. This was achieved with the involvement of experts from a variety of backgrounds ...

Strategic foresight is increasingly being used as a technique to help organisations anticipate and prepare for potential challenges or opportunities. Its application to agricultural and rural development policies is examined in this briefing. A range of relevant foresight studies are identified and examined across a number of elements, covering: the identification of key drivers of change; the nature of the scenarios they present (including the role of technology and precision farming); and food ...

The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union; it was established in 1993 and has its seat in Copenhagen. Its main mission is to provide the EU with objective, reliable and comparable information on the basis of which to conduct environment policy, assess environmental impacts and inform the public about the state of the environment. The Agency's main clients are the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council, as well as its 33 member countries. Its main ...

This report summarises four presentations by experts and discussions which took place at the workshop ‘EU Action to Combat Marine Litter’ held on 3rd May 2017 in the European Parliament in Brussels. The aim was to provide background information to the ENVI Committee’s Members and contribute to their understanding of the need to tackle marine litter and the challenges involved. The Circular Economy Action Plan and Plastics Strategy are recognised as policy windows in addressing this form of pollution ...

Existen grandes diferencias entre los Estados miembros en lo que se refiere al tratamiento de los residuos municipales (vertido, incineración, reciclado y compostaje). En el marco de la transición hacia una economía circular, la Comisión Europea presentó en 2015 cuatro propuestas legislativas destinadas a mejorar la gestión de los residuos en la Unión Europea. Se prevé que las votaciones en primera lectura relativas a los informes aprobados por la Comisión de Medio Ambiente, Salud Pública y Seguridad ...

Está previsto que la votación del Parlamento sobre la propuesta de la Comisión relativa a la revisión del sistema de expedición y gestión de las autorizaciones de las actividades pesqueras tenga lugar durante la primera sesión plenaria del mes de febrero. La finalidad de la revisión es mejorar el seguimiento y la transparencia de las flotas exteriores de la Unión, con independencia de la zona y el contexto en el que operen.