4th Expert Workshop - Re-Boosting Growth: Overcoming Challenges to Measuring and Reducing Compliance Costs

Participants at this workshop 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.

Work in Progress: Papers from recent and forthcoming competition discussions

This page provides working papers by the Secretariat and invited experts under discussion at recent and forthcoming OECD Competition meetings. The proceedings with the full set of documents relating to these topics will become available on

Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) in the Czech Republic and other countries

The aim of this workshop was to present recent developments in implementing Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Czech Republic as well as to enable an exposure to different approaches in some leading OECD countries.

Guía para Mejorar la Calidad Regulatoria de Trámites Estatales y Municipales e Impulsar la Competitividad de México

This Guide provides recommendations of high impact reforms that can be implemented in the short term as well as new sections on regulatory governance, six case studies of citizen councils at the state level, and 19 good practices in the implementation of the recommendations of the 2010 Guide.

Guía para Mejorar la Calidad Regulatoria de Trámites Estatales y Municipales e Impulsar la Competitividad de México: Anexos

These are the annexes of the Guide to Improve the Regulatory Quality of State and Municipal Formalities in Mexico.

OECD Forum 2012

As governments and international organisations grapple with an increasingly turbulent economic climate and rising frustration and disquiet among citizens, they require fresh thinking and inspiring ideas. In developing strategies to restore long-term economic growth and employment, policy-makers must ensure that they respond to public demands for a fairer and more inclusive society. The challenge for this year's Forum is clear: how can

Administrative Simplification for Citizens in Hungary

This workshop focused on strategies, tools and institutional mechanisms for cutting administrative burdens on citizens in Hungary through the experiences of Austria, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands in this field.

The APEC-OECD Co-operative Initiative on Regulatory Reform

This page presents the work of the APEC-OECD Co-operative Initiative on Regulatory Reform and includes links to the 3 phases of the programme where information about the workshops is provided.

Related Documents

• APEC-OECD Integrated Checklist on Regulatory Reform
• Results of the first five self-assessments using the Integrated Checklist

Sixth meeting of the Regulatory Policy Committee

The Regulatory Policy Committee took place on 11-12 April 2012 at the OECD headquarters. Delegates from the OECD participated as well as from Brazil, Columbia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Tunisia and Viet Nam.

Workshop on the Role of Impact Assessments in Policy Making, 2 November 2011

How can impact assessments foster horizontal co-ordination within governments? What is the role of an “integrated” impact assessment? Delegates at this workshop discussed how to better institutionalise evidence-based decision-making processes in governments.