EU Regulatory Observatory

EPICENTER’s EU Regulatory Observatory systematically monitors whether EU legislation is moving toward more regulation or greater economic freedom.

Comprising a panel of over 30 experts from across Europe, the Observatory uses a standardised scoring system to assess new EU legislative proposals based on their direction and intensity, offering a transparent, evidence-based view of regulatory trends in Brussels.

Each legislative item is rated on a scale from 0 (complete overregulation) to 10 (full economic liberalisation), with scores weighted according to expert confidence and subject expertise. The Observatory is designed to fill a long-standing gap: while concerns about EU overregulation are widespread, there has been no systematic mechanism to quantify this trend, until now.