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Ex-ante Impact Assessment. Anca Ghinea Councilor Public Policy Department. Conference on Good Governance and Public Administrative Reform Bucharest, 6 December 2007. Ex-ante impact assessment (2005 – 2007). 2 years of G.D. No. 775/2005 implementation (public policy regulation);
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Ex-ante Impact Assessment Anca Ghinea Councilor Public Policy Department Conference on Good Governance and Public Administrative ReformBucharest, 6 December 2007
Ex-ante impact assessment (2005 – 2007) • 2 years of G.D. No. 775/2005 implementation (public policy regulation); • 1 year of G.D. no. 1361/2006 implementation (impact assessment regulation); • 2 years since the establishment of public policy units within ministries; • 3 manuals/guidelines on ex-ante impact assessment; • aprox. 30 presentations and trainings for ministries on ex-ante impact assessment.
G.D. no. 775/2005 implementation • There is a real progress in understanding the public policy concept, its stages as well as a progress in using the template provided by G.D. no. 775/2005; • The public policy units have experts capable of elaborating impact assessment analyses, other conditions being met (political will, resources, time); • There is a good communication between ministries and PPD/GSG regarding the elaboration and improvement of public policy proposals.
G.D. no. 775/2005 implementation • There are still situations in which important decisions are made without public policy documents to substantiate them; • There are problems related to the intra and inter-institutional communication when planning and formulating policies; • Specific impact assessment analyses (cost-benefit analyse, risk analyse, etc.) are not yet used while formulating policies; • Most of the policy proposals relate to narrow issues and just a few to inter-ministerial, complex ones.
G.D. no. 1361/2006 implementation • The implementation period is too short for an accurate assessment of the results; • The template provided by the G.D. no. 1361/2006 was used in 95% of the drafts of normative acts; • Currently, aprox. 30% of the drafts of normative acts are substantiated in a satisfactory way, according to the requirements included in G.D. no. 1361/2006.
G.D. no. 1361/2006 implementation • The new template generally contains the same information on the impact of the regulations as the old one. There is insufficient assessment of socio-economic impact, of the budgetary impact as well as a weak description of the consultation process; • There is not enough time allocated by the ministries to a proper impact assessment evaluation; • The ministries rarely use statistical data and other types of centralised information for the substantiation of the normative acts; • As a rule, the drafts of normative acts do not have as base public policy documents.
Next steps • Continuing and strengthening the implementation of G.D. no. 775 and G.D. no. 1361 • G.D. no. 1226/2007 – Rules of procedures for the elaboration, the endorsement and the adoption of public policy documents and normative acts • Better Regulation Strategy • PHARE 2006
The New Rules of Procedures • The public policy documents will have a new statute as they will go through the same announcement, consultation and adoption procedures as the normative acts; • The capacity of the General Secretariat of the Government to monitor the implementation of impact assessment procedures will be strengthened; • It contributes to the improvement of the policy documents and normative acts’ flow before their adoption in the Government Meeting; • The announcement procedure for public policy documents and normative acts is being introduced; • It contributes to the improvement of the interministerial consultation process.
Better Regulation Strategy • It will introduce full RIA; • Sectoral impact assessment methodologies will be elaborated (environment, economy, education, health, etc); • Centralised IT system for publishing policy documents and normative acts on the Government webpage will be available.
PHARE 2006 Sectoral impact assessment methodologies for public policy documents and normative acts – health and education • Impact assessment methods recommended for the two domains; • Specific techniques for assessing future costs and benefits in education and health policies (focus on nonmonetary costs and benefits); • Recommendations related to accessing public-private partnership in the elaboration of the impact assessment analyses (potential partners and possible financial resources).