Think Tank

This paper has been drafted to assist the European Parliament's Committees on Budgets (BUDG) and Budgetary Control (CONT) in the context of their work on an implementation report on the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation. Based on publicly available information, it provides an overview of EU reports and academic papers on the implementation of the Regulation. It examines three key interlinked concerns: (1) potential legal gaps in the Regulation; (2) the use of 'smart conditionality' to ensure ...

Assessment of the consequences of Catalan legislation in light of articles 21 and 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Assessment of the legal and economic consequences of the Catalan legislation as regards free movements of goods and services

Assessment of the legal consequences of the Catalan legislation as regards consumer rights

The original full study analyses the implications of a shift towards performance-based instruments for budgetary control. In the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and (to a lesser extent) Cohesion Policy, the use of Financing not Linked to Costs (FNLC) was adopted as a means of simplifying the financing of programmes funded by the EU. Instead of disbursements being based on costs, beneficiaries have to demonstrate that they have made progress towards achieving plans. For the RRF, qualitative ...