Better Regulation practices

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Better Regulation practices

• Presentation by Edward Donelan, Senior Adviser,
  SIGMA
• Conference on Regulatory Reform in Practice
• Warsaw,
• October 8, 2006

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Better Regulation practices

• Context for Regulatory reform
• Public sector modernisation
• Regulatory reform/ deregulation
• OECD Reports
• EU Policy on better regulation

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Better Regulation practices

• Better regulation is
• a policy which aims to ensure that (existing and
  future) legislation is as concise and
  straightforward as its subject matter permits and
  
• light as is commensurate with the proper
  protection or promotion of the various public
  interests at stake and the burden it imposes on
  citizens or business.

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Better Regulation practices

• Better Regulation achieved through
• Policies
• Institutions
• Tools

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Better Regulation practices

• Policies
• Implicit
• Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
• Explicit,
• Czech Republic, Malta, Poland
• Institutions
• Central Units
• Czech Republic, Malta, Poland
• Task forces
• Cyprus, Poland,
• Part of existing structures
• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

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Better Regulation practices

• Tools
• Impact assessment
• Consultation
• Simplification
• Language
• Procedures (reduction of administrative burdens)
• Consolidated, codified, recast texts

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Better Regulation practices

• Impact assessment
• Early and often
• Link with consultation
• Supports evidence based policy making
• Improves legitimacy and compliance
• Review by central body

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Better Regulation practices

• Consultation
• Burden or blessing
• Time needed
• Regulatory Capture versus exclusion
• Tool to acquire information and insights not
  available to officials
• Culture specific

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Better Regulation practices

• Distinctive positive features of new
  (1/5/2004)member states
• Openness of government
• Measurement of administrative burdens (SCM)
• Provision of information once
• Review of procedures
• Review of use of tools (impact assessment,
  consultation, simplification)

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Better Regulation practices

• Issues in need of more attention new
  (1/5/2004)member states
• Political support
• Measurement and reduction of administrative
  burdens only a first step
• Impact assessment and consultation.
• E government

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Better Regulation practices

• Next steps?
• Improved consultation
• Improved impact assessment
• Reduction of initiatives
• Administrative burdens awareness
• Culture of continuous improvement

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Better Regulation practices

• Application of Better regulation to
• Regional and local authorities
• Internal procedures in organisations such as the
  European Institutions, the United Nations
• Policies such as CAP, education.