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Explore by impact areas Model contributions to impact assessments grouped by the impact areas that the model helped to assess. The impact areas are based on the guidance provided by the Commission's better regulation framework (for more information see the glossary). In some cases, model contributions might still need to be classified and thus do not appear here.
Select a tab Economy Social Environment
Capital movements; financial markets; stability of the euro (19)
Investments and functioning of markets
Macro-economic stability
Consumers and households (41)
Prices, quality, availability or choice of consumer goods and services
Safety or sustainability of consumer goods and services
Impact on vulnerable consumers
Consumer's ability to benefit from the internal market or to access goods and services from outside the EU
Consumer information, knowledge, trust or protection
0
Culture (0)
Preservation of cultural heritage
0
Cultural diversity
0
Citizens' participation in cultural manifestations and access to cultural resources
0
Education and training, education and training systems (8)
Level of education and training outcomes
Skills used by individuals
Education and mobility of workers
Access to education and training
Cross-border collaboration (education & training)
Financing and organisation of educational and training systems
Universities and academic freedom
Productivity of the human capital
0
Employment (92)
Economic growth and employment
Impact on jobs
Impact on jobs in specific sectors, professions, regions or countries
Indirect effects on employment levels
Factors preventing or enhancing the potential to create jobs or prevent job losses
Opportunities and incentives of workers/specific groups to work
Food safety, food security and nutrition (0)
Safety of food and feed
0
Food and nutrition security (both in EU and third countries)
0
Fraud, crime, terrorism and Security, including hybrid threats (0)
Security, crime or terrorism risks
0
Criminal\'s chances of detection or potential gain from the crime
0
Number of criminal acts
0
Law enforcement capacity to address criminal activity
0
Security interests
0
Victims of crime and witnesses or their rights
0
Vulnerabilities and exposure to hybrid threats
0
Direct or indirect persistent hybrid threat challenge
0
Reduced exposure to hybrid attacks/incidents
0
Risk of environmental fraud
0
Fundamental rights (1)
Governance, participation and good administration (0)
Involvement of stakeholders in issues of governance
0
Treatment of actors and stakeholders
0
Autonomy of the EU and national social partners
0
Public institutions and administrations
0
Better informed public
0
Political parties or civic organisations
0
eGovernment
0
Income distribution, social protection and social inclusion (of particular groups) (29)
Households income and at risk of poverty rates
Inequalities and the distribution of incomes and wealth
Financing and organisation of social protection systems
Access to and quality of social protection benefits
Access to and quality of basic goods and services
Innovation (productivity and resource efficiency), research (academic and industrial) (28)
Stimulation of research and development
Markets for Innovation
Innovation for productivity/resource efficiency
Promotion of academic or industrial research
Property rights, intellectual property rights (1)
Intellectual property rights
Property rights
0
Public health and safety and health systems (40)
Health and safety of individuals/populations
Health risks due to substances harmful to the natural environment
Health due to changes waste disposal
Health due to changes in the amount of noise, air, water or soil quality
Lifestyle-related determinants of health
Specific effects on particular risk groups
Quality and/or access to health services and the financing and organisation of health systems
0
Cross-border collaboration (health)
0
Resilience, technological sovereignty, open strategic autonomy, security of supply (0)
EU's resilience in the relevant policy area
0
Technological sovereignty of the EU as regards critical technologies
0
Exiting dependencies on third countries as regards critical technologies and value chains
0
Union’s essential security interests, in particular as regards critical technologies, infrastructure and value chains
0
Technological development / Digital economy (0)
Simplification / automation of processes
0
Synergies with existing digital policies
0
Digital eco-systems / exchange of data between different actors and systems
0
Reduction of burden and costs for businesses and citizens through the use of digital technology
0
Pace of the digital transformation of economic or social sectors
0
Digital accessibility / digital gap
0
Territorial impacts (specific (types of) regions and sectors) (0)
Significantly different extent of impact on economic activity, environment, or people living in cities, rural, cross-border, insular, mountainous, or sparsely populated areas and in the EU outermost regions
0
Problem concentration in certain areas (e.g. rural), regions, or Member States
0
Disproportionately affected areas (e.g. rural), regions, or Member States
0
Uneven territorial development
0
Distortion of territorial cohesion
0
Effects on EU outermost regions, other island, crossborder and mountain regions, taking into account their constraints / characteristics
0
Third countries, developing countries, and international relations (41)
EU foreign policy and EU development policy
Goods traded with developing countries
Environment in third countries
Impacts on developing countries
Impacts on third countries
International legal commitments
Employment, social protection and poverty impacts in non-Member States (including developing countries)
Adjustment costs in developing countries
ILO Conventions and the implementation of the ILO Decent Work Agenda in third countries
Impacts on gender equality and on the most vulnerable groups of society, including persons with disabilities
Transport and the use of energy (43)
Energy intensity of the economy
Fuel mix used in energy production
Energy and fuel consumption
Vehicle emissions
Demand for transport
Waste production / generation / recycling (9)
Waste production, treatment, disposal or recycling
Working conditions, job standards and quality (14)
Wages, labour costs or wage setting mechanisms
Employment protection
Occupational health and safety
Undeclared work
0
Work organisation
0
Exercise of labour standards
0
Social dialogue
0
Vocational training and career development advice
0
Participation, information and consultation schemes for employees
0