EU Territorial Impact Assessment: Under What Conditions?

EU Territorial Impact Assessment: Under What Conditions?

Zonneveld, W.
Waterhout, B.

OTB Research Institute

Urban and Regional Development

2009-12-31

Since the start of the making of the ESDP, back in 1989, there has been interest in a ‘Territorial impact assessment’. This interest has been revamped now that the Territorial Cohesion green paper is out. Yet, at the EU level there is still little guidance on how a TIA might be done and on what it actually is or could be. This paper aims to ask and answer a set of fundamental questions that need to be addressed before engaging into developing an EU TIA instrument. Taking a multi-level governance perspective we will discuss the conditions under which a TIA might be able to serve its own purposes. The paper discusses what actually can be understood under territorial impact and whether this can be measured. It addresses the question whether there need to be a separate TIA at EU level, or whether it should integrated in Commission working methods? Is there any scope to introduce in the existing European Commission’s Impact Assessment a territorial dimension, and if so, how can this be done?

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European Regional Science Association

Territorial cohesion of Europe and integrative planning, 49th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, 25-29 August 2009, Lodz, Poland

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(c) 2009 Zonneveld, W. ; Waterhout, B.