CONFERENCE on Regulatory Impact Assessment Ankara 19 April, 2006 Mr Piotr Serafin

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CONFERENCE onRegulatory Impact
AssessmentAnkara 19 April, 2006Mr Piotr
Serafin Ms. Malgorzata Kaluzynska
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Outline

• Why Better Regulation is becoming so important at
  EU level?
• What are the issues at stake?
• Better Regulation and policy-making how and at
  what stage does RIA fit into the policy-making
  process?
• What is the relationship between RIA and other
  tools?
• What to avoid in the development of IA tools?
• What are the particular challenges in introducing
  RIA?

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Why Better Regulation is becoming so important in
the EU?
EU integration is about regulation, not about
budgetary spending
Regulations are commonly portrayed as burdens to
business performance
After realunch of Lisbon in 2005 Better
Regulation as a main driver for competivness
Lisbon Strategy deemed high quality of
legislation as key factor for improvement of
competitiveness of economy
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Why BR is becoming so important at EU level? (2)

• Business performance depended on the range of
  influences of which the regulatory environment
  might have be one
• Companies find compliance with EU and national
  legislation both costly and time-consuming

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Why BR is becoming so important at EU level? (3)

• Regulation affects SME disproportionately due to
  limited capacity to tackle, understand and comply
  with complex regulations
• SME constitute 99 of all enterprises and two
  thirds of employment in the European Union
• Burdensome regulations halt the entrepreneurship
  in many EU Member States

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What are issues at stake? (1)

• Reinforcing the economic and assessment and
  competitiveness aspects but
• emphasizing the commitment to continue an
  integrated, balanced assessment of economic,
  social and environmental impacts through the
  revised Impact Assessment guidelines

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What are issues at stake? (2)

• The new simplification program
• Measurement of administrative cost
• Enhancing the consultation process
• Reforming institutions and promoting use of
  analytical methods
• Screening and withdrawal of pending proposal
• Handling RIA at Council

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European Regulation - why we should care?

• Still 40-50 of significant new legislation with
  an impact on businesses originates from the
  European Union
• The Lisbon Agenda - competitiveness and growth
• Negative view in business and media Member
  States are said to gold-plate and implement too
  early

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What is our policy on EU Regulation?

• To support better regulation principles in Europe
• Working with future Presidencies
• To transpose EU law correctly, and on time, to
  achieve the objectives and no more
• Which, in turn, should lead to minimal burden
  being placed on business by EU regulation
• EUs simplification agenda - achieving real
  simplification with tangible outcomes

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Tools of Better Regulation
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The relationship between RIA and other tools?

• RIA and simplification
• Ensuring coherence new and existing legislation
• RIA and cutting red tape
• Avoiding unnecessary regulatory and
  administrative burdens

RIA reduces the threat of making bad law,
requiring simplification in the future
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The relationship between RIA and other tools?

• RIA and simplification must be an integrated part
  of an overall strategy to improve the quality of
  the regulatory environment
• Consultation procedures play important role both
  at the stage of conducting the IA and delivering
  the simplification exercise
• Neither RIA nor simplification programmes are the
  pure responsibilities of the public
  administration and cant be treated as the
  personal worth of the officials
• The consultation process must influence RIA and
  simplification programmes.

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What to avoid in the development of IA tools?

• To rapid introduction of the RIA system
• Starting the RIA analysis late in the process of
  the policy making
• Concentration only on one dimension of RIA

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What are the particular challenges in introducing
RIA?

• The key challenges in introducing the RIA are
• the overburdening of RIA system
• evidence that RIA system delivers better decision
• setting up mechanisms that enable the return of
  poor quality RIAs to the responsible officials
  for reconsideration and correction
• monitoring and reviewing studies (ex-post
  analyses of conducted RIA)