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Impact assessments help improve the quality of proposed legislation. It enables European Community institutions to determine the economic, social, and/or environmental costs of proposed legislation. It further identifies available options to achieve the objectives of the proposed measure and the positive and negative consequences of each of the options.
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Maras, MH. (2015). Impact Assessment. In: Backhaus, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_242-1
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