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Regulatory Quality in Europe

Regulatory Quality in Europe. Sandra Klavina, State Chancellery of Latvia Regional Strategic Workshop on Impact Assessment Riga, Latvia 2-4 February, 2005 Organized by Open Society Institute and UNDP. The Best P ractice – I ncentives for EU. USA – Government Performance and Results

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Regulatory Quality in Europe

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  1. Regulatory Quality in Europe Sandra Klavina, State Chancellery of Latvia Regional Strategic Workshop on Impact Assessment Riga, Latvia 2-4 February, 2005 Organized by Open Society Institute and UNDP

  2. The Best Practice – Incentives for EU USA – Government Performance and Results Act (1993) – strategic planning; Australia – Financial Management and Accountability Act (1997) – accrual- based appropriations; New Zealand – Fiscal responsibility Act (1994),Strategic Result Areas (1995) – on outputs based accrual appropriations, outputs towards outcomes.

  3. Initial Steps White Paper on European Governance (July 2001) – proposals for change: better involvement and more openness; better policies, regulation and delivery; global governance; refocused institutions.

  4. Initial Steps Mandelkern report on Better Regulation( 2001): Principles of Better Regulation: necessity, proportionality, subsidiarity, transparency, accountability, accessibility, simplicity. Tools of Regulatory Quality: alternatives to regulation, impact assessment, consultation, simplification, access to regulation.

  5. Key Documents Commision’s Communication on Impact Assessment (COM (2002)276, June 2002): added value of introducing Impact Assessment; gradual implementation of IA procedures; coverage of IA; the two stages of IA; the main components of extended IA.

  6. Key Documents Annual the Commission’s Legislative and Work Programes (from 2003): Outlook and challenges; Commission priorities for every year; List of legislative proposals and no- legislative acts; Impact assessment annexes. Technical guidelines for impact assessment and cost- benefit analysis (2002).

  7. Key Documents Commission report on Impact Assessment: Next steps - In support of competitiveness and sustainable development SEC(2004)1377 (October 2004): Defined IA questions; Revised list of impacts to be considered in an IA. Technical guidelines, handbook and technical annexes for impact assessment. http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/impact/key.htm

  8. Better Regulation Structure Directors of Better Regulation (DBR) – informal intergovernmental group; Economic Policy Committee (EPC)- identification of best practice, methods for assessing administrative burden put on business by EU legislation; European Public Administration Network (EPAN) – BR is one of the working areas; High level Group on Competitiveness (HLG) – review current criteria used by the EU in IA process in relation to the competitiveness.

  9. Problems Slow legislation and slow implementation process; One directive – different Impact Assessment results in member states; In many cases simplification is only regarded as reducing of administrative burden for SME; Luck of knowledge to use theory in practice; Luck of experience in ex- post evaluations in new member states.

  10. Future Intentions To introduce indicators for Regulation Quality; To introduce Performance Measurement in ministries; To involve new member states in different surveys and IA projects (The RIA Initiative – specific project of DBR); To expand understanding of simplification; Educational events.

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