Conference - Implementing the EU digital regulations: the Governance Challenge
How can we encourage the development of responsible and sovereign AI?
More information and inscription.
How can we encourage the development of responsible and sovereign AI?
More information and inscription.
Climate change and the energy transition require considerable investment to reduce the impact of human activity on the environment. The new technologies to be implemented and the new behaviours to be developed most often require the payment of public subsidies on the grounds that the activities they support would not naturally find funding commensurate with their general interest.
Independent regulatory agencies have been flourishing in Europe from the 1990’s onwards, both at national and supra-national level. As time went by, these agencies have increasingly been working in networks, and even in networks of networks. One of the main drivers is the progress of the European integration, which necessitates a degree of harmonization and cooperation across national jurisdictions, not the least on cross-border issues and enforcement actions.
The enactment of the Digital Act and the Digital Governance Acts were major achievements of the outcoming European Commission and Parliament. The new Commission, the regulatory authorities and industry now face the challenge of the development of data ecosystems.
"The Chair's raison d'être is to contribute to the debate on how public policy objectives can be achieved effectively while guaranteeing the competitiveness of economic players. These are the reasons why we are carrying out in-depth work on the processes by which public policy is drawn up and implemented, and on the way in which stakeholders in industries and markets organise themselves collectively to create frameworks for exchange and cooperation." - Eric Brousseau
Public policies are striving to change usage and influence consumer practices. In the current context of energy and climate transition, this ambition is at the heart of regulation and the evaluation of its effectiveness.
However, sometimes behaviour resists the desired change, or the effects of regulation on practices are not what was initially anticipated, which reduces the impact of the measures implemented.
Following on from the work of the ‘Club of Rome’ in the early 1970s, the principle of economic players (manufacturers, distributors, importers, marketers) taking responsibility for all or part of waste management was introduced into French law in 1975. However, it was not until the early 1990s that a system for processing household packaging was established. From the 2000s onwards, other specialised channels were set up, depending on the characteristics of the waste to be treated.