Public authorities
This page is a encyclopedia article.
The page identifier is Op_en3276 |
|---|
| Moderator:Heta (see all) |
|
|
| Upload data
|
Public budget expenditure items include Education, Health, Welfare and social security, Housing and other social services, infrastructures, Police, prisons and courts, Defence & intelligence, General administration, payment of interest on national debt.[1]
This impact area is related both to budgetary consequences and to the consequences in terms of administrative requirements, both at EU level and at the level of national and local authorities.
Whenever analysisng impacts on public authorities, consideration should be given to their role vis-à-vis the proposal:
- Are public authorities actually involved in its implementation?
- Are public authorities affected as its direct or indirect addressees?[1]
In the first case, costs incurred (e.g. human and infrastructure costs, co-funding of projects, enforcement costs.) should not be assessed as economic impacts but as implementation costs and considered alongside the implementation costs incurred by the EU. In this context, consideration should be given to the likely implications of the proposal on the public expenditure, future budget commitments, taxation and where appropriate on the public sector budget balance and the quantity of government debt. Public authorities may also be concerned both as an actor in the implementation of a proposal and as its direct or indirect addressees.[1]
According to the Impact Assessment Guidelines of the European Commission, the following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on public authorities:
- Evaluating impact on public authorities in different times
- Evaluating impact on public authorities[1]
See also
References
This text is for information only and is not designed to interpret or replace any reference documents. The text is partially adapted from the Commission Impact Assessment Guidelines SEC(2005)791