This long experience of the BIA system provides interesting lessons as regards success factors for a new, integrated impact assessment scheme, including a sustainability dimension. The European Council in Barcelona took note of the Commission's intention to establish such a new impact assessment method by the end of 2002, as part of its wider efforts in the field of better regulation and as outlined in the Communication to the Laeken Summit
on simplifying and improving the regulatory environment . The BIA Pilot Project report is thus an important contribution to the on-going discussions on the new system, of which a first outline will be
...[+++] presented in the form of a Communication alongside the upcoming action plan for simplifying and improving the regulatory environment (to be presented in June 2002).Le rapport sur le projet pilote BIA est donc une contribution importante aux discussions en cours sur le nouveau système, dont un premier aperçu sera donné sous la forme d'une communication parallèlement au plan d'action à venir de simplification et d'amélioration de l'environnement réglementaire (présentation prévue pour juin 2002).