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EEB’s experience pointed out in this chapter shows a genuine need for further investments in data collection – to identify and collect the relevant data needed for impact analysis and to invest in finding appropriate methodologies – qualitative or quantitative. Our assessment also identified the danger of political influence in impact assessments, which could lead to inappropriate trade-offs and policy choices based not on objective information but on political interests and influence. The need for improvements in transparency – of data, methods and stakeholder participation, and improvements in the consultation modes were also addressed.
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See http://www.eeb.org/activities/waste/20060630-Okopol-Brief-on-MSWI-efficiency-formula-v5-final.pdf and “EEB’s key concerns with Commissioner Dimas’s letter and note to MEP Florenz (24/8/2006) assessing the potential impacts of the proposal to use an energy threshold to distinguish between municipal incinerators that are disposal installations from those that are recovery.”
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EEB Comments on the Commission Staff Working Document – Impact Assessment on the Thematic Strategy on Prevention and Recycling of Waste and the immediate implementing measures; February 2, 2006.
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Maro, P. (2010). Views of the European Environmental Bureau on the Commission’s Impact Assessment Procedure – With a Focus on Environment. In: Bizer, K., Lechner, S., Führ, M. (eds) The European Impact Assessment and the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11670-4_3
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