The current study is aimed at providing a review of the economic impacts of the Regulation since it entered into force until the end of 2015. This study thus covers the following dimensions: (i) Analysis of the regulatory costs to the pharmaceutical industry for meeting legal obligations; (ii)...

Training is considered to be an important tool to promote a harmonised approach to food safety rules and compliance with EU food law. The Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) programme was established in 2005 to provide training for EU and non-EU officials on EU food law. The programme aims to...

The purpose of this report is to develop a typology of reforms and a template for screening health policy effects to support ex-ante and ex-post evaluation. Thus, it is proposed a typology of reforms that can be used to review impact and progress in areas such as coverage, equity, efficiency,...

In this annex we include the four case studies conducted for each of the four pillars of the EBCP. Each case study is based on a selection of project grants, procurement contracts and Joint Actions (JA) related to cancer funded under the EU4Health Programme. The case studies cover projects...

Case studies are a research method and analytical technique that helps to investigate various aspects of a given issue, in which context and environment are assumed highly influential. Within this evaluation, the case studies were intended to provide a realistic picture and insight into the...

The Health Programme (HP) is the European Commission's main vehicle for funding collaborative actions to support public health in Europe. Its second iteration ran for six years, from 2008 until 2013, and had a budget of EUR 321.5m. The 2nd HP pursued objectives aimed at improving citizens'...

This is the Executive Summary of the Final Report on the Ex-post evaluation of the 'Exsmokers are Unstoppable' campaign, which was conducted by Coffey on behalf of the "Public Health Evaluation and Impact Assessment Consortium" (PHEIAC). The evaluation was contracted by the European Commission,...

The overall objective of this study is to support the impact assessment (IA) that will accompany the proposal for a revision of the Transport Regulation, by identifying and analysing quantitative and qualitative data on the expected significant animal welfare, economic, social and environmental...

The European Commission is undertaking a back-to-back evaluation of Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides (SUD) and impact assessment of its possible revision. This study, by Ramboll Management Consulting and Arcadia International, presents an analytically robust evaluation,...