APRAISE: Assessment of Policy Interrelationships and Impacts on Sustainability in Europe

EU has formulated ambitious environmental policy targets which aim at forming the basis for a sustainable European growth. The focus on interrelationships and tradeoffs at each policy level, when designing efficient policy mixes can lead Europe to more significant sustainable pathways.

The “APRAISE – Assessment of Policy Impacts on Sustainability in Europe” offered European and national policy makers a more holistic understanding of the interaction of different policies so that efficient policies can be formulated.

APRAISE aimed to:

• Improve the decision basis for the selection of policy tools,
• Include policy interrelationships (synergies and trade-offs) into efficiency assessment and policy design,
• Develop an improved methodological framework for the ex-post and ex-ante assessment of environmental policies and policy mixes,
• Empirically assess the existing and planned environmental policies in selected sectors of EU Member States and expand the existing databases on multiple parameters of environmental policies,
• Evaluate the role of sustainable development indicators for impact assessment.