1. Tailor made legislation for regions and cities?
Territorial Impact Assessment Work Programme
Eleftherios StavropoulosDG REGIO

2. Workshop or Model ESPON and JRC Data
Treaty of Lisbon 2009
Territorial Focus of Cohesion Policy
Territorial Cohesion Goal
Territorial Impact Assessments (Tool Box)
Territorial Aware Policies / Legislation
Workshop or Model ESPON and JRC Data
Territorial impact Assessment
The Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 added territorial cohesion along with economic and social cohesion as a European goal.
TIA embedded in the Better Regulation Guidelines
The Better Regulation guidelines, approved 19 May 2015, provide the basis for performing a territorial impact assessment. The guidelines include a methodology developed by DG REGIO, Tool #29 of the “Toolbox”, about when and how to assess territorial impacts. After the update in July 2017 it is now tool box 33
Quick Scan, Rhomolo and Luisa

3. Capitalised on experience of Committee of the Regions on TIA
Mainstreaming TIA in Impact Assessment process of EU
Test phase in 2016 (Quick Scan tool)
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2010), evaluation
New Skills Agenda for Europe (May 2016)
TIA work programme for 2017
1. Directive on port reception facilities for ship generated waste & cargo residues (DG MOVE)
2. Minimum quality requirements for reused water in the EU (DG ENV)
3. Directive on clean and energy efficient road transport vehicles (DG MOVE)
TIA work programme for 2018
Cross Border TIA
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Trainings and dissemination/ Improving methodologies

4. Analytical reports are produced with regard to potential territorial impacts.

5. Progress so far
Source: RSB Annual Report 2016
Source: RSB Annual Report 2017

6. Tailor made legislation for regions and cities?
Public consultations - submit comments
National and European associations that are invited by Commission services to take part in stakeholder consultations and focus groups
Your representatives at the Committee of the Regions
Your representatives at the European Parliament and Council
Urban Agenda partnerships

7. Lessons Learned
TIA should be used when relevant
Use of TIA has to be proportional
TIA is not a separate assessment . It is an integrated part of the Impact Assessment process

8. Lessons Learned
The TIA Quick Scan tool has its limitations as a methodology and the lack of adequate data or relevant indicators can limit is applicability.
It is a good "decision" making tool and it can signal to Commission Services when and where more time and resources should be devoted to look into more detail when serious asymmetrical territorial impacts are detected.
Therefore it is important to be used as early as possible
Can provide early signals to Commission Services to analyze in more detail if needed during the I.A. (i.e. TOR for support studies for IA

9. Lessons Learned
The TIA Quick Scan tool is a quick to deploy and cost efficient methodology to involve stakeholders from cities and regions
Can build upon the work of other more robust and quantitative methodologies such as the LUISA modelling platform and RHOMOLO.
LUISA and RHOMOLO are more fit to analyse Territorial Impacts of big political initiatives (i.e. future Cohesion Policy, future Common Agricultural Policy etc) while Quick Scan toll is better fit for directives, regulations etc.

10. Lessons Learned
TIA provides the opportunity to consider better the specificities of different regions and territories something that helps the EU legislation to become more targeted but also provides to EU a more democratic and accountable profile.
Especially this is more evident when we use Quick Scan methodology for TIAs where the participation of experts from cities and regions are taking part and the different local and territorial realities can be taken under consideration
Quick Scan tool is more effective when analysing concrete Commission proposals and is less useful when analysing concepts.

11. New dimensions for TIA
TIA is becoming more and more important. "Urban proofing"
UA Partnerships' draft actions for better regulation focus on possible improvement of policy processes and legislation. DGs take active part there
"Rural proofing, Cross Border and outermost proofing