Title: CONFERENCE on Regulatory Impact Assessment Ankara 19 April, 2006 Mr Piotr Serafin
1CONFERENCE onRegulatory Impact
AssessmentAnkara 19 April, 2006Mr Piotr
Serafin Ms. Malgorzata Kaluzynska
2Outline
- 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?
3Why 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
4Why 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
5Why 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
6What 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
7What 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
8European 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
9What 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
10 Tools of Better Regulation
11The 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
12The 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.
13What 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
14What 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)