Better Regulation is the Commission's regulatory approach to designing and evaluating EU policies and laws transparently, which is based on evidence and informed by the views of citizens and stakeholders, such as businesses, public administrations, researchers and experts.

On 29 April 2021, the European Commission published its new “Communication on Better Regulation: Joining forces to make better laws”. In the regulation, scientific evidence is identified as one “cornerstone of better regulation” that is “vital to establishing an accurate description of the problem, a real understanding of causality and therefore intervention logic; and to evaluate impact”. In order to ensure that scientific evidence reaches policymakers, the research community is to be “better mobiliz(ed) and engag(ed) (with) in the regulatory process from the start“.  

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