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The OECD set of indicators focuses on the processes for generating new regulations and for managing the stock of existing regulations. It is mainly oriented towards assessing to which extent tools, policies and institutions comply with good practices, as defined in the OECD principles. The data help illuminate how regulatory practices differ, and how countries choose to improve their regulatory frameworks.
It covers the following areas:
Content of regulatory policies
1. Regulatory policies
2. Regulatory management and policy coherence
3. Clarity and due process in decision making procedures
4. Regulatory processes
5. Transparency
6. Provision of justification for regulatory actions, consideration of alternatives
7. Provision of justification for regulatory actions, continued
8. Compliance and enforcement
Regulatory quality tools
9. Consultation procedures with affected parties
10. Use of regulatory impact analysis (RIA)
11. Administrative simplification licences and permits
12. Measurement and reduction of administrative burdens
13. Training in regulatory quality skills
Institutional arrangements to promote regulatory quality
14. Central regulatory oversight authority (administrative and political)
15. The role of Parliament in regulatory quality
16. Inter-governmental co-ordination on regulatory policy
Dynamic aspects of regulatory quality
17. Ex post regulatory review and evaluation
18. Controlling aggregate regulatory burdens
19. Indicators of performance, Quantitative questions, outputs
Quantitative assessments are useful to give a first impression of differences in countries’ regulatory management systems and progress over time. They have to be complemented by in-depth qualitative studies (e.g. OECD-EU15 project; Reviews on regulatory reform) that take into account the specific country context and are able to assess whether certain practices in place work well. To illustrate, while the OECD indicators are informative about which countries regularly conduct impact assessments, to which areas these impact assessments apply and what progress has been made over time, qualitative studies can judge whether the impact assessments fulfil their aim in a specific country and what specifically should be done to improve their functioning. Quantitative and qualitative studies are therefore complementary.
The OECD currently updates the dataset, to enhance comparability across countries and over time and to clean and prepare the fresh data for 2008. More data will soon be available on this webpage.
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Contact Information:
For further information, please contact Stephane.jacobzone@oecd.org, christiane.arndt@oecd.org or Emmanuel.job@oecd.org.
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