The Detergents Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 648/2004) establishes common rules designed to achieve the free movement of detergents and surfactants across the EU, while at the same time providing a high degree of protection to the environment and human health. As a regulation, it is directly...

It is widely regarded that the infringement of IP rights - and here most notably counterfeiting and piracy - is a problem which results in reduced revenues for IP right holders and preventing them from recuperating investments, for example, into R&D. Counterfeiting and piracy are said to...

The study study aims to provide "Support for an ex-post evaluation of Directive 2004/48/EC [IPRED] and for an Impact Assessment in view of legislative proposals modernising the enforcement of IPR". IPRED has been implemented between 2005-2009. A first, early evaluation (2011) could not establish...

This study outlines an economic case for whistleblower protection in the European Union (EU). It focuses on the public procurement sector, a major component of the economy and an attractive hotspot for corruption. In this context, whistleblower protection can encourage the reporting of corrupt...

The European Union Governmental Satellite Communications (EU GOVSATCOM) initiative aims at providing secured communication capacity to EU governmental stakeholders that need it for various missions in the fields of security, defence, humanitarian aid, emergency response and diplomatic...

In this study we assess the economic impacts of A) extending the scope of the so-called Bolar patent exemption as applied to medicinal products for human use: i) to any medicines (not limited to products following an abridged marketing authorisation only), ii) to obtain marketing approvals...

This report presents the Final Evaluation of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) in the Context of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). It was commissioned by EC Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), and undertaken by a...

This report presents an assessment of the overall economic impact derived from public spending on the Copernicus programme. The report compiles the results from two other reports: - Strategy&, 2015. Study to examine the GDP impact of space activities in the EU. Final Report Prepared by Strategy&...

This report presents the findings of the "Impact Assessment Study on the simplification of the labelling requirements for chemicals and the use of digital labelling". It provides input for the Impact Assessments on the targeted revisions of the CLP and the Detergents regulations. On one hand,...

The Impact Assessment study on fragrance labelling on cosmetic products (575/PP/2016/FC) has been commissioned by the European Commission in 2019 with the objective to provide input for a possible new initiative following the 26-27 June 2012 Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety...