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‌Berlin, 11-12 June 2012

Participants shared approaches and techniques for measuring compliance costs and identifying strategies for cutting regulatory costs that contribute to re-boosting growth and to delivering improved welfare outcomes. The workshop took place in Berlin and was hosted by the German Federal Chancellery and the National Regulatory Control Council. Delegates and experts from 25 countries exchanged experience and good practices and focused both on the technical challenges in measuring compliance costs and benefits of regulations, and on the political challenges in reducing costs to stimulate growth and maximise welfare outcomes.

• Proceedings
• List of participants
• Speakers' profiles

This meeting was part of an annual series of expert meetings on . Other meetings have focussed on the implementation of the 2012 Recommendation (Stockholm 2013), on developing a framework for measuring regulatory performance (Madrid 2011), on the use of perception surveys (Istanbul 2010), and on indicators of regulatory management systems (London 2009).

This meeting was part of an annual series of expert meetings on Measuring Regulatory Performance. Other meetings have focussed on assessing the implementation of the 2012 Recommendation (Stockholm 2013), on measuring and reducing compliance costs (Berlin 2012), on developing a framework for measuring regulatory performance (Madrid 2011) and on the use of perception surveys (Istanbul 2010).

• , Regulatory Policy Division, OECD
• , Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Manchester
• Estimated gains in GDP growth
  

• , Chief Regulatory Analysis, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland
  
• , Economic Adviser, Economics, Strategy and Better Regulation Group, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, United Kingdom
  

• , Advisor to the Minister of State, Better Regulation Unit, Federal Chancellery, Germany
• , Policy Advisor Better Regulation, the Regulatory Reform Group, Netherlands

• , Senior Policy Analyst, Policy Division, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• , Assistant Commissioner, Australian Productivity Commission

• , Senior Policy Analyst, Policy Division, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• , Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France
• , Deputy Director, Better Regulation Executive, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, United Kingdom, and Ms. Casey Malynn, Economic Adviser, Economics, Strategy and Better Regulation Group, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, United Kingdom

Background documents

• RIA Guidelines, Regulation Review, Australian Government 
• Impact Assessment Guidelines, European Commission
• , Germany
• Guidance on Regulatory Management, New Zealand
• Guidance on Better Regulation, Scotland
• Guidelines for the Government Offices and ordinance on RIA for the government agencies, Sweden
• Regulatory Impact Analysis (French; German), Switzerland
• HMT Green Book, Regulatory Impact Assessment, United Kingdom

For further information, please contact Christiane Arndt (christiane.arndt@oecd.org).

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