This pilot project starts from the idea that EU policies and legislation and their specific implementation in the Member States do not always take unintentional territorial impacts into account with respect to, among others, urban, rural, mountainous, cross-border or other specific territories. Therefore, the focus of this pilot project was to learn more about the current practice of Territorial Impact Assessment with respect to different phases of the EU legislative process.
This study investigates the current practice of Territorial Impact Assessment in different phases of the EU legislative process and to what extent TIA tools are applied. Its core ambition is not to produce another TIA tool, but to understand how TIA can be structurally improved as a governance process, culminating in a model for Dynamic Territorial Impact Assessment (Dynamic TIA) across all phases of the EU legislative cycle.
This publication was produced in collaboration between the Dutch Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning and ITEM, in the Pilot Action in the framework of the Territorial Agenda: https://territorialagenda.eu/pilot-actions/regulatory-tia-exploring-the-varied-impacts-of-regulations-across-different-territories/
