Collection

RPC opinions on departmental impact assessments: published July 2014

A collection of RPC opinions relating to impact assessments which government departments have now published - published July 2014

• From: Regulatory Policy Committee
• Published: 25 July 2014

This latest collection of opinions includes ‘green’ and ‘amber’ fit for purposes opinions on departmental impact assessments. The collection covers those proposals for which departments have published the relevant impact assessment, and where the RPC has not already published the opinion previously.

The full collection of all published ‘green and ‘amber’ fit for purpose opinions including those published here.

The collection of all published ‘red’ not fit for purpose opinions.

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)

• Impact assessment: Unified Patent Court implementation: Alignment of exceptions to infringement
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Consumer Landscape Review: Transfer of consumer enforcement powers
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: The extension of the Primary Authority scheme to cover the age restricted sale of alcohol and fire safety regulations
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Pubs statutory code and adjudicator
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2013
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Consumer redress for misleading and aggressive commercial practices
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Experimental use and Bolar exception
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Extend exception for copying for research and private study
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Extending Copyright Exceptions for Educational Use
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Exception for copying of works for use by text and data analytics
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Copyright exception for archiving and preservation
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Copyright exceptions for disabled people
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Use of works for public administration and reporting
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Exception for use of quotations or extracts of copyright works
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Copyright exception For Parody
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Copyright Exception for Private Copying
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Company Filing Requirements
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Department of Health (DH)

• Impact assessment opinion: Standardised packaging of tobacco products
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• Impact assessment opinion: Introduction of permissive legislative framework for Defined Ambition pension schemes and removal of statutory indexation for existing Defined Benefit schemes
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: The Pensions Act 2011 (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2014
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Child maintenance reforms: CSA case closure, introducing CMS
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Home Office

• Impact assessment opinion: Licensing Act 2003: proposals to reduce burdens of licensing on those who sell limited amounts of alcohol as part of a wider service (“ancillary sellers”) and for community sellers.
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Late Night Refreshment - Reducing the burdens of the Licensing Act 2003
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Temporary Event Notices (TENs): Reducing the burdens of the Licensing Act 2003
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Review and changes to the Riot (Damages) Act 1886
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Department for Education (DfE)

• Impact assessment opinion: Raising the threshold for compulsory registration on the Early Years Register and General Childcare Register
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Changes to fees and frequencies inspections of children's social care providers
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

• Impact assessment opinion: Revision of Fees: Amendment of the Plant Health (Export Certification) (England) Order 2004 and the Plant Health (Export Certification) (Wales) Order 2006
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Amendment to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 - new schedule for Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs)
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Impact Assessment of the Order to ban the sale of certain non-native
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Public Bodies Reform Bill – Marine Management Organisation
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Marine Licensing (Application Fees) Regulations 2013
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (Amendment) Regulations 2012
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Deregulation and simplification of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (EPR)
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Amendment to the Order made under the Import of Live Fish Act (ILFA) 1980
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

• Impact assessment opinion: Court Fees. Cost recovery.
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

• Impact assessment opinion: Consultation on draft COMAH Regulations 2015 to implement the Seveso III Directive 2012/18/EU on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, amending Council Directive 96/82/EC
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: The Heavy Fuel Oil (Amendment) Regulations 2014 IA for amending COMAH 1999 to align the thresholds for Heavy Fuel Oil with those of Petroleum Products
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Department for Transport (DfT)

• Impact assessment opinion: Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Hours of Work)(Amendment) Regulations (“the 2013 Regulations”)
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Impact Assessment for the Ports of: Barrow, Cardiff, Cromarty Firth, Fowey, Oban, Peterhead, Plymouth, Shoreham and Troon (“the Listed Ports")
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis
• Impact assessment opinion: Impact Assessment for the Ports of: Belfast, Felixstowe/Harwich, Ipswich, Medway and Thames (“the Listed Ports")
  • 25 July 2014
  • Research and analysis

Published 25 July 2014