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Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2017

With its annual Cross-Border Impact Assessment, ITEM provides more insight into the effects on cross-border regions of European and national legislative and policy initiatives. The report is intended as a valuable tool for policymakers at regional, national and European level in making decisions regarding (cross-)border regions. These impact assessments notably help to identify existing or future cross-border effects and are thus contributing to the political debate.

The current research dossiers are the result of a successful collaboration between ITEM, its researchers and its partners.

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Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2017: Dossier 1: German car tolls

Research focused on the potential effects of the proposed German toll legislation. The dossier includes a survey carried out among Dutch and German drivers, and interviews with German experts from the tourism, marketing, and retail sectors.

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Tax Treaty Netherlands-Germany

On 1 January 2016, the new tax treaty between the Netherlands and Germany entered into force. The 2016 Cross-Border Impact Assessment also looked at the border effects of the new tax treaty by taking a closer look at the changes to the specific treaty articles on earned income and pensions.

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Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2017: Dossier 3: Social Security

Research focused on the ex ante analysis of the proposed amendments to EU Regulation No 883/2004 and 987/2009. The focus is on cross-border social security in long-term care, unemployment benefits, family benefits, and social benefits for EU citizens who are not economically active.

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Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2017: Dossier 4: (In)mobility of third-country students

Analysis and evaluation of European and national student immigration policy from a Euregional perspective. In particular, the research focused on the question whether there is a border region penalty for students from third countries, whereby they experience more obstacles than students who live and work or study in the same Member State.

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Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2017: Dossier 5: Belgian Passenger Name Registration Regulation

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and London, national governments in the EU quickly introduced a series of countermeasures to avoid the repetition of such a tragedy. This dossier analyses the potential impact of Belgian legislation on cross-border mobility.

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Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2017: Dossier 6: The qualifying foreign tax obligation ('90% rule'): A quanttateve ex-ante efect assessment

Dossier analyses the population of non-resident workers in the Netherlands as of 1 December 2014 to estimate the potential cross-border impact of the qualifying foreign taxpayer obligation ("90% rule") that came into force on 1 January 2015.

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