In the light of the ongoing pandemic the idea of "cohesion" within Europe is at stake. Political decision making on EU level is increasingly seen as "black box" without connection to the regions and people. Early use of Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) in the EU legislative process may bring cohesion to the attention of decision
makers.
Our session will showcase that with the use of TIA in the Inception Impact Assessment stage of the process all aspects of ex-ante assessment of legislative proposals may be covered (environmental, economic and social) and the effects on territorial cohesion in a finely granulated regional perspective (NUTS 3) will be possible. The existing use of TIA (the TIA QUICK CHECK is endorsed in Better
Regulation Toolbox 33) will be experienced by the participants and its use for decision making will become palpable.
By this we will show that with only a small adaptation large effects towards inclusive, participative and fair decision making may be achieved.