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Competitiveness proofing
Directors and Experts of Better Regulation Meeting
Vilnius, 5-7th June 2013
Konstantin Pashev
DG ENTR Unit A5 'Economic Analysis and Impact Assessment'
DG Enterprise and Industry
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Outline
1. The Commission's approach to assessing competitiveness impacts
2. Overview of the 12-step operational guidance
3. Streamlining competitiveness proofing in the practice of Impact Assessment
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The commitment
Industrial Policy Flagship October 2010
"…a reinforced analysis of the impacts on industrial competitiveness for all important new policy proposals with significant effects on industry as part of the impact assessment process…"
"…assessing and reporting the overall impactsof a proposal on competitiveness, including the investment, cost, price and innovative implications for industry and individual sectors, as well as consumer satisfaction, and taking particular account of the potential interactions between a policy proposal and other existing or planned legislation and regulation."
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Impacts on competitiveness
Cost competitiveness Capacity to innovate
International competitiveness
The capacity of the business to produce more and/or higher quality products and services that meet better customers' preferences
Impacts on the affected sectors' international sales performance
The cost of doing business, which includes cost of intermediate inputs (incl. energy) and of factors of production (labour and capital)
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Three - pillar approach
I. Getting Started
II. Qualitative screening
III. Quantifying expected impacts
Step 1: Does your IA require comp. proofing?
Step 2: How deep should we go?
Step 3: Which are the affected sectors?
Step 4: What is the effect on SME competitiveness?
Step 5: Effect on cost and price competitiveness
Step 6: Effect on capacity to innovate?
Step 7: International competitiveness?
Step 8: Data on structure and performance of directly affected sectors
Step 9: Data evidence on indirectly affected sector(s)
Step 11: Quantify expected impacts on the capacity to innovate
Step 12: Quantify expected impacts on international competitiveness
Step 10: Quantify expected extra compliance and other operational costs
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The 12 steps at a glance
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Cost competitiveness
Step 5: What is the likely effect on cost and price competitiveness of the affected industry? Compliance costs Other economic costs (from price changes of intermediate
goods, including energy and raw materials, capital and labour costs)
effect on consumer choice and prices the need and cost of restructuring
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Step 6: Capacity to innovateQuestions about the capacity of the sector to produce
R&D, product and process innovation, which largely depends on supply of skills, incentives to invest in R&D (e.g. IPR protection), access to risk capital
Step 7: Likely impact on the affected enterprises' international sales performance (market shares, comparative advantages,) and access to markets
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•Non-cost and international competitiveness
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Results of Part II: Qualitative screening matrix
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Competitive impacts
Affected sectors Sizing (timing)of impacts
Duration ofimpacts
Risks anduncertainty
Directly Indirectly
Cost and pricecompetitiveness
Capacity toinnovate
Internationalcompetitiveness
•Descriptive statistics
•Input-output•analysis
•Quantification of impacts on
competitiveness may require
•Applied general
equilibrium modelling
•Other•econometric
exercise
•Quantifying the impacts
No prescription on the instruments
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Mainstreaming CP in the IA practice
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The IAB 2012 Report recommended that "services make better use of the related new operational guidance documents to provide a robust assessment of the impacts of proposals on industrial competitiveness, SMEs and on micro enterprises".
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First good CP practices
• Published
Consumer Product Safety Regulation
Directive concerning the posting of workers
Regulation on reduction of CO2 emissions from new light
commercial vehicles
Revision of the Council Directive 90/314/EEC on Package Travel and
Holiday Tours
Revision of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)
nuclear safety legislative framework
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First good CP practices
• Finalized (publication upcoming)
Unique identifier for medicinal products
Fertilizers Regulation
Legislative amendment of the Directive 89/686/EEC on personal
protective equipment
Revision of the Directive on products burning gaseous fuels
European Tourism Label for Quality Systems
Strategy for reducing Heavy Duty Vehicles' CO2 emissions and fuel
consumption
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