Publications | Jean Monnet Chair on Better Regulation

SubCategory

Year

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

European Parliament (STOA) (2022)

Auditing the quality of datasets used in algorithmic decision-making systems

Better Regulation

Andrea Renda (2022)

Assessment of current initiatives of the European Commission on better regulation

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

European Parliament (2022)

Activities report 2021 | Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA)

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

Nicoletta Rangone (2022)

Intelligenza artificiale e intelligenza umana a supporto di una buona amministrazione

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

Nicoletta Rangone (2022)

Intelligenza artificiale e pubbliche amministrazioni: affrontare i numerosi rischi per trarne tutti i vantaggi

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

Edoardo Chiti; Barbara Marchetti;Nicoletta Rangone (2022)

L’impiego di sistemi di intelligenza artificiale nelle pubbliche amministrazioni italiane: prove generali

Better Regulation

Building Trust in Public Institutions

Behavioural regulation

Beata Mäihäniemi (2022)

The role of behavioural economics in shaping remedies for facebook's excessive data gathering

Better Regulation

Andrea Renda (2022)

Assessment of current initiatives of the European Commission on better regulation -

Behavioural regulation

OPSI - OECD (2022)

Responsible by Design – Principles for the ethical use of behavioural science in government

The use of behavioural insights (BI) in public policy has grown over the last decade, with the largest increase of new behavioural teams emerging in the last five years. More and more governments are turning to behavioural science – a multidisciplinary approach to policy making encompassing lessons from psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, anthropology, economics and more. There are a wide variety of frameworks and resources currently available, such as the OECD BASIC framework, designed with the purpose of helping BI practitioners and government officials infusing behavioural science throughout the policy cycle.

Better Regulation

Claudio M Radaelli and Gaia Taffoni (2022)

What is the role of foresight in impact assessment? : early experience and lessons for the European Commission

The European Union (EU) is engaged in a complex digital and ecological transition. The policy programmes launched by the EU to support recovery, resiliency and new modes of growth are definitively future-oriented. Foresight is therefore particularly appropriate for the current season of EU policies. The European Commission adopted the first-ever Strategic Foresight Report in September 2020 to set out the rationale of foresight and chart priorities for the development of EU policies. In the EU legislative cycle, new policy initiatives are supported by impact assessment. To state that foresight and impact assessment are not foes, but friends is uncontroversial, but less obvious is how to pin down how exactly they can be friends. We explain how foresight can add to impact assessment, and outline some issues that will have to be addressed in the near future.

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

Ronit Justo-Hanani (2022)

The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

M. Manzoni et al (2022)

AI Watch, road to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence by the public sector

This handbook is published in the context of AI Watch, the European Commission’s knowledge service to monitor the development, uptake and impact of AI for Europe, which was launched in December 2018 as part of the Coordinated Plan on the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Made in Europe. As part of the AI Watch, a specific Task addresses the role of AI for the public sector, and it is set out to provide actionable guidelines for the adoption of AI in the public sector in the EU. The public sector deserves special attention in this regard, as it differs from the private sector in a number of ways and features.

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

Ebers M.L. et al. (2022)

The European Commission’s Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act—A Critical Assessment by Members of the Robotics and AI Law Society (RAILS)

On 21 April 2021, the European Commission presented its long-awaited proposal for a Regulation “laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence”, the so-called “Artificial Intelligence Act” (AIA). This article takes a critical look at the proposed regulation. After an introduction (1), the paper analyzes the unclear preemptive effect of the AIA and EU competences (2), the scope of application (3), the prohibited uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (4), the provisions on high-risk AI systems (5), the obligations of providers and users (6), the requirements for AI systems with limited risks (7), the enforcement system (8), the relationship of the AIA with the existing legal framework (9), and the regulatory gaps (10). The last section draws some final conclusions (11).

Artificial Intelligence and new technologies regulation

Raposo V.L. (2022)

Ex machina: preliminary critical assessment of the European Draft Act on artificial intelligence

This article will unpack the European Draft Act on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the first (both in Europe and in the world) far-reaching regulation in this domain. It categorizes AI systems in three (eventually four) levels of risk and it assigns to each level a particular legal framework, with its own limitations and obligations. The Draft Act was created for laudable purposes, namely to harmonize digital development with fundamental rights and European values. However, similar to many other ambitious projects, it falls short in many ways. As this article will show, several issues are incompletely regulated, and there are doubts about the exact scope and content of the legal solutions outlined in the draft. It also potentially overlaps with several other European norms, introducing the possibility of conflicts. Finally, the law’s focus on fundamental rights may come at the price of digital innovation, although critics claim that the Draft Act does not go far enough to protect such rights.