Better regulation and impact assessment in the European commission

Regulatory Impact Assessment: Towards Better Regulation?

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 72-105

  Allio, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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