The Pre-assessment Of EU Legislation

The pre-assessment of legislation is the analysis and assessment of the legislation draft before the introduction of it,including the expected effect and social influence after the implement of it,in order to ensure the necessity and legality of the content and scientificity and practicality of the main systems in the regulations and rules.The pre-assessment of legislation can help lawmakers timely found and correct improper legislation behavior,reduce the unnecessary cost,in order to improve the quality of legislation;The pre-assessment of legislation also can make full use of limited legislative resources,improve the efficiency of legislative resources;The pre-assessment of legislation also conducive to scientific democracy of the legislative work.The pre-assessment of EU legislation originated in 1980 s,after years of exploration and practice,the system has developed very mature,and has formed a complete evaluation system.The pre-assessment of EU legislation forms a set of specific procedures.It can be divided into three stages: the preparation stage of preliminary formal evaluation stage and the final stage of the review,the European Commission,the European Parliament and the Council of ministers participate in assessment actively.The contents and methods are the core content of the system.In the evaluation of the content,the EU has made specific assessment indicators,including economic,social and environmental issues.In the detailed assessment methods,the EU mainly adopts the cost benefit analysis,cost effectiveness and risk analysis methods,through these three methods to make the evaluation more scientific and reasonable.The pre-assessment of EU legislation made a very good effect,summed up so much successful experience,and be worthy of our reference and study,the specific contents are as follows: firstly,the government attaches great importance to the pre-assessment of legislation.Formulating special impact assessment guidelines for the legislative to provide theoretical guidance.Secondly,setting up a special impact assessment committee.Thirdly,The comprehensive and specific evaluation index system.including three aspects:economic,society and environment.In addition,there are still many problems about the pre-assessment of EU legislation,so we need learn lessons.Finally,we should be combined with China's actual situation,formulating feasible pre-assessment of legislation system.