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Conference on Regulatory Impact Assessment: Importance, Issues, and Challenges in the EU

This conference will explore the increasing importance of Better Regulation in the EU and its impact on policymaking. Topics include the relationship between RIA and other tools, challenges in introducing RIA, and avoiding pitfalls in IA tool development. Join us in Ankara on April 19, 2006.

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Conference on Regulatory Impact Assessment: Importance, Issues, and Challenges in the EU

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  1. CONFERENCE onRegulatory Impact AssessmentAnkara19 April, 2006Mr Piotr Serafin &Ms. Malgorzata Kaluzynska

  2. 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?

  3. 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 improvementofcompetitiveness of economy

  4. 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

  5. Why BR is becoming so important at EU level? (3) • Regulation affects SME disproportionately due tolimited 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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 • EU’s simplification agenda - achieving real simplification with tangible outcomes

  10. Tools of Better Regulation

  11. 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

  12. 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 can’t be treated as the personal worth of the officials • The consultation process must influence RIA and simplification programmes.

  13. 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

  14. 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)

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