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On 18-19 October 2001 more than 60 government experts from 25 OECD countries met to discuss administrative simplification practices in OECD Countries: What do governments do to reduce administrative burdens and cut red-tape? Which tools and mechanisms are in place and what are the experiences? Experts discussed various simplification instruments - one-stop shops, plain-language drafting, use of the silence-is-consent rule, etc. - together with methodologies to measure burdens and different institutional drivers of administrative simplification policies. In the discussions, country experts broadly agreed that administrative simplification is not only increasingly based on ITC mechanisms, e-government is also becoming the the key driver for administrative simplification policies.
Results of the meeting will feed into OECD/PUMA's continued work on administrative simplification. A report on Administrative Simplification - Best Practices in OECD Countries is due in early 2002.
Meeting documents
Country documentation
List of speakers with links to documents and/or presentations
Use of "One-Stop Shops" and "Single Windows"
Ms Graça R.M.L.Pombeiro, Deputy Director, Secretariado para a Modernização Administrativa, Portugal.
Ms Kari Bjørke, Assistant Director General, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Norway
Permit Simplification Programs -- Direct Measures to Cut "Red Tape"
Ms. Prof. Zofia Wysokinska, Counsellor, Department of Economic Strategy, Ministry of Economy, Poland
Mr. Ali B. Haddou, Co-ordinator/RIA, Ministry of Economy, Mexico
Use of Regulatory Alternatives to Reduce Administrative Burdens
Mr. Arthur Hartman, Regulatory Impact Unit, Cabinet Office, The United Kingdom
Mr. Lennart Palm, Vice Chairman of the BIAC Working Group on Regulatory Reform, Sweden
Administrative Tools for Preventing and Addressing "Customer" Complaints
Ms. Martina Elfgren Lilja, Desk Officer, Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications, Sweden
Ms. Eloisa Paredes, Technical Advisor, Ministerio de Administraciones Publicas, Spain
Methods to Estimate Administrative Burdens
Mr. Kees Burger, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands
Mr. Andre Nijsen, Director, EIM BV, Netherlands
Mrs. Kirsten Röhling, Deputy Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
Mme. Dominique De Vos, Directrice générale adjointe, Agence pour la simplification administrative, Belgium
Institutional Drivers of Administrative Simplification
M. Michel Yahiel, Rapporteur Général, Commission pour les simplifications administratives, France
Mr. Thomas Fjeldberg, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Denmark
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