Cableways Impact Assessment Study - Final Report - saferail.nl

IA Study Concerning the Revision of the Cableways Directive
For each problem area, the detailed analysis presented in the remainder of this section
thus focuses only on the sub-set of impacts that are deemed relevant. It can
immediately be seen that the focus of the impact assessment will be on economic
impacts as the proposed options cannot be expected to have significant social and
environmental impacts, although impacts on public health and safety are going to be
considered.
However, not all questions listed under the relevant impact categories in the
Commission’s IA Guidelines are relevant to the policy options at hand. The key
questions that are to be considered for each policy area as well as for the alignment of
the Directive with the NLF are given in bold in Table 5.2. It can be assumed that
impacts relating to the other questions would be none or minimal.
Table 5.2: Key Questions to be Considered for Each Problem Area
Impact type
Functioning of
the internal
market and
competition
Competitiveness,
trade and
investment flows
Operating costs
and conduct of
business/SMEs
Administrative
burdens on
businesses
Public
authorities
Innovation
research
and
Key Questions
What impact (positive or negative) does the option have on the free
movement of goods, services, capital and workers?
Will it lead to a reduction in consumer choice, higher prices due to less
competition, the creation of barriers for new suppliers and service providers,
the facilitation of anti-competitive behaviour or emergence of monopolies,
market segmentation, etc.?
What impact does the option have on the global competitive position of EU
firms? Does it impact on productivity?
What impact does the option have on trade barriers?
Does it provoke cross-border investment flows (including relocation of
economic activity)?
Will it impose additional adjustment, compliance or transaction costs on
businesses?
How does the option affect the cost or availability of essential inputs (raw
materials, machinery, labour, energy, etc.)?
Does it affect access to finance?
Does it impact on the investment cycle?
Will it entail the withdrawal of certain products from the market? Is the
marketing of products limited or prohibited?
Will it entail stricter regulation of the conduct of a particular business?
Will it lead to new or the closing down of businesses?
Are some products or businesses treated differently from others in a
comparable situation?
Does it affect the nature of information obligations placed on businesses
(for example, the type of data required, reporting frequency, the complexity
of submission process)?
What is the impact of these burdens on SMEs in particular?
Does the option have budgetary consequences for public authorities at
different levels of government (national, regional, local), both immediately
and in the long run?
Does it bring additional governmental administrative burden?
Does the option require the creation of new or restructuring of existing public
authorities?
Does the option stimulate or hinder research and development?
Does it facilitate the introduction and dissemination of new production
methods, technologies and products?
Does it affect intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, copyright,
other know-how rights)?
Does it promote or limit academic or industrial research?
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