reporting – outcomes & ways forward ilia neudecker, foxgloves consultancy make it work...
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Workshop 19&20 November, Brussels Jointly organised by MiW and Commission Stakeholders invited General picture presented Discussion on challenges and possible solutions Breakout groups worked intensively on different issuesTRANSCRIPT
Reporting – outcomes & ways forwardIlia Neudecker, Foxgloves Consultancy
Make it Work Conference Regulatory Insights, Experiences and Enlightenment
- making regulation work for our EnvironmentEdinburgh, 10-11 December 2015
MiW – Monitoring & Reporting
• Aim: establishing principles for smart monitoring and reporting
• Analyse: Why, what, how and who• Establish principles for assessing
M&R: value, sufficiency, proportionality, etc
Workshop 19&20 November, Brussels
• Jointly organised by MiW and Commission• Stakeholders invited• General picture presented • Discussion on challenges and possible
solutions• Breakout groups worked intensively on
different issues
Key points – Information needs
• Look carefully at the ‘what’ and the ‘why’• Address M&R at an early stage, not as an
afterthought• Less might be more (quality, costs,
comparability across MS)• Availability
Key points - Legislation
• Difference between purposes of reporting, e.g. for compliance assurance to Cion, for policy effectiveness (EU and national)
• So: different legislative approaches – at different level – with different content
Key points - Digital
• Digital makes things easier and faster (e.g. Irish EPA uses LEMA)
• Data harvesting: promising, can save costs, without sacrificing content & value (yet don’t overrate)
• INSPIRE – big opportunity
Key points - Process
More / better communication (< >)
Better attention to timing
Room for flexibility (where possible)
Room for learning by doing
Possible ways forward 1
• ‘Quick’ wins: aligning timetables, definitions, scrapping redundancies, etc (e.g. WFD revision)
• Possible to identify core of information needs for EU? (MS can develop further data for their own needs)
Possible ways forward 2
• Legislation: key provisions (e.g. for compliance checking) in directives
• Other details in comitology, and provisions in non-legal setting
• Checklist as an element of MiW drafting principles
ChecklistChecklist to be used: • when designing requirements• by all institutions at EU level (EC, EP,
Council) • asking questions rather than giving
answers Putting principles in operation (examples)
Checklist - Value:
• Which information is needed to assess and verify whether we can achieve what is aimed for; and whether we comply with what we agreed to do?
• What do we need to monitor to get the knowledge we need? What kind of information is necessary and useful?
Checklist - Sufficiency:• When is information sufficient (no more / no
less) to assess required purposes?• Is information already available elsewhere, for
other purposes? • Can available data be harvested for additional
purposes? • What is desired quality level for each specific
purpose?
Checklist – Proportionality:
• Where and how to get (additional) information and at what cost?
• Do we have the resources to do what we are agreeing on?
• Are the required data already available, and (at what extra cost) can they be harvested?
Other ways forward
INSPIRE:• Standardise definitions, vocabularies• Communication between ‘data people’
and ‘reporting people’• Prioritise according to needs for reporting• Towards data harvesting and away from
xml schemasNot all reporting is
‘data’!
Discussion points
• Which key requirements to be put in directives? Which elsewhere?
• Is a checklist useful & feasible? Under what conditions?
• Which actors to involve? How? Process? Timing?
Thank you!
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Principles for developing reporting provisions
• Value – information collected and reported must have value• Sufficiency – the information provided is enough to do the job• Proportionality – benefit should be compared to burden• Coherence – between objectives/processes across acquis• Timeliness – getting information when it is useful• Continuity – long term data sets to show trends• Consistency – of definitions, timetables across acquis• Comparability – of data between Member States• Subsidiarity – reporting requirements to inform decisions at
appropriate governance levels