Regulatory policy and Covid-19

• Removing administrative barriers, improving regulatory delivery (18 September 2020)
• Regulatory Policy and the COVID-19 Crisis (3 August 2020)
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going: How economic regulators bolster the resilience of network industries in response to the COVID-19 crisis (31 July 2020) 
• No Policy maker is an island: The international regulatory co-operation response to the COVID-19 crisis (11 June 2020); see also blog post (16 September 2020)
• Regulatory Quality and COVID-19: Managing the risks and supporting the recovery (29 April 2020) 

Latest updates

• Regulatory Policy in the Slovak Republic (13 July 2020)
• Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight in Austria (22 June 2020)
• Implementing Technical Regulations in Mexico / Spanish (15 June 2020)
• Driving Performance at Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency (6 May 2020)
• Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy: One-Stop Shops for Citizens and Business / French (6 May 2020)
• Review of International Regulatory Co-operation of the United Kingdom (4 May 2020)
• Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections in the Environmental Sector of Peru / Spanish (29 April 2020)
• Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Netherlands (21 April 2020)
• Behavioural Insights and Organisations - Fostering Safety Culture (3 April 2020)

Events

• Virtual 7th Annual Meeting of International Organisations – 3 September 2020
• Launch of the OECD Review of International Regulatory Co-operation of the United Kingdom – 2 September 2020 
• OECD promotes regulatory reform in Latin America to boost economic recovery – webinar – 13 August 2020
• Sixth ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practices Network Webinar Series: Better Regulation for Post COVID-19 Recovery – 11 August, 5 October (tbc), November 2020
• OECD promotes methodologies and practices to assess regulatory policy in Mexico – Webinar, 9 July 2020
• OECD contributes to the design and development of rail institutions in Mexico – Webinar, 2 July 2020

Brochures and highlights

• OECD Regulatory Reform Support in Southeast Asia (July 2020)
• Implementing Technical Regulations in Mexico (Policy Brief 2020) - Spanish
• Better regulation in Latin America as a fundamental mechanism to face the crisis and accelerate recovery - Spanish (May 2020)
• Review of International Regulatory Co-operation of the United Kingdom (Policy Brief 2020)
• International Regulatory Co-operation (Policy Brief 2020)
• Regulatory Effectiveness in the Era of Digitalisation (2019)
• Tool and Ethics for Applied Behavioural Insights: The BASIC Toolkit (2019)
• Better Regulation Practices across the European Union (2019)
• The Contribution of International Organisations to an International Rule-Based System (2019)
• IRC: Adapting rulemaking for an interconnected world (2018)

Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance (2012)

• EN / FR / ARA / GER / JAP / KOR / PORT / SVK / ESP 

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Regulatory Policy Outlook

• OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2018 - EN / FR / GER / ITA
• Case Studies of RegWatchEurope Regulatory Oversight Bodies and the EU Regulatory Scrutiny Board (2018) - EN
• OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2015 - EN / FR / GER
• A Reader’s Companion to the OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2015 - EN

Reviews of regulatory reform

• Slovak Republic (13 July 2020) EN
• Croatia (2019) EN
• Argentina (2019) EN / SP 
• Slovenia (2018) - EN
• Korea (2017) - EN / KO
• Peru (2016) - EN
• Chile (2016) - EN
• Lithuania (2015) - EN

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Measuring Regulatory Performance

• Better indicators for better regulation: the OECD iREG experience (2019) - EN
• Better Regulation Practices across the European Union (2019) - EN - Highlights
• Pilot database on stakeholder engagement practices (2017) - EN
• OECD Regulatory Compliance Cost Assessment Guidance (2014) - EN
• OECD Framework for Regulatory Policy Evaluation (2014) - EN
• A Practitioner's Guide to Perception Surveys (2012) - EN
• Evaluating the Impact of Regulation and Regulatory Policy (2012) - EN
• Evaluating Regulatory Management Tools and Programmes (2012) - EN
• The economic impact of regulatory policy: A literature review of quantitative evidence (2012) - EN

• Better Regulation in Europe: EU15 project (2010) - EN

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International regulatory co-operation (IRC) and International Organisations (IOs)

Country work

• Review of International Regulatory Co-operation of the United Kingdom - EN - (2020)
• Review of IRC of Mexico - EN / SP (2018)

IRC and International Organisations

• Virtual 7th Annual Meeting of International Organisations, 3 September 2020
• Study in support of the future OIE Observatory of Standard Implementation - EN (2020)
• IRC: The Case of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) - EN (2020)
• The Contribution of International Organisations to an International Rule-Based System - EN - Brochure (2019)
• IRC: The Role of International Organisations in Fostering Better Rules of Globalisation - EN (2016)
• IRC and IOs: The Cases of the OECD and the IMO - EN (2014) 
• The Partnership of IOs for effective international rulemaking

IRC and Trade

• Facilitating trade through regulatory cooperation EN (2019)
• Understanding the Trade Costs of Regulatory Divergence and the Remedies EN (2017)
• International Trade and Good Regulatory Practices: Assessing the Trade Impacts of Regulation, WP No. 4 (2016) 

IRC in specific sectors

• Study of International Regulatory Co-operation (IRC) Arrangements for Air Quality, EN - website (2020)
• IRC: Addressing Global Challenges - EN / Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 (2013)

Studies on IRC approaches

• The contribution of trans-governmental networks of regulators to IRC, WP No. 10 (2018)

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Governance & independence of regulators 

• The 2018 Indicators on the Governance of Sector Regulators - Part of the Product Market Regulation (PMR) Survey (2019) EN
• Creating a Culture of Independence, Practical Guidance against Undue Influence (2017) EN /  FR / SP
• The Role of Economic Regulators in the Governance of Intrastructure (2017) - EN
• Being an Independent Regulator (2016) - English
• Governance of Regulators' Practices: Accountability, Transparency and Co-ordination (2016) - English
• Regulatory management practices in OECD countries, WP No. 1296 (2016)
• OECD Studies on Water: The Governance of Water Regulators (2015) - EN
• OECD Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy: The Governance of Regulators (2014) - EN / FR

Performance of regulators

• Driving Performance at Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency - EN - 6 May 2020
• Driving Performance at Peru’s Transport Infrastructure Regulator - EN - SP - 27 Febrary 2020
• Driving Performance at Peru's Energy and Mining Regulator (2019) - EN - SP
• Driving Performance at Peru’s Telecommunications Regulator (2019) - EN - SP
• Impact Update: Driving Performance of Mexico's Energy Regulators (2018) - EN
• Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities  (2018) - EN 
• Mexico's Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment (2017) - EN / SP
• Mexico's National Hydrocarbons Commission (2017) - EN / SP 
• Mexico's Energy Regulatory Commission (2017) - EN / SP
• Mexico's Energy Regulators (2017) EN / SP - Summary: EN / SP
• Latvia's Public Utilities Commission (2016) - EN
• Colombia's Communications Regulator (2015) - EN / Update 2017 - EN

Behavioural insights 

• Behavioural Insights and Organisations - Fostering Safety Culture - (2020) -  EN
• Tools and Ethics for Applied Behavioural Insights: The BASIC Toolkit - (2019) - EN  
• Delivering Better Policies Through Behavioural Insights: New Approaches (2019) - EN
• Behavioural Insights and Public Policy: Lessons from Around the World (2017) - EN
• Protecting Consumers through Behavioural Insights: Regulating the Communications Market in Colombia (2016) - EN
• Regulatory Policy and Behavioural Economics (2014) - EN

Enforcement and inspections 

• Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections in the Environmental Sector of Peru - EN / SP - (2020)
• Policies, regulatory framework and enforcement for air quality management EN (2020)
• OECD Enforcement and Inspections Toolkit (2018) - EN / FR / ESP
• OECD Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy: Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections (2014) - EN / FR

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Regulatory impact assessment (RIA)

• RIA and Regulatory Oversight in Austria EN (June 2020)
• RIA in the Netherlands EN (April 2020)
• OECD Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy: Regulatory Impact Assessment EN / FR (Feb 2020)
• Implementing RIA in the Central Government of Peru - SP - EN - (2019)
• Evaluation Report: Regulatory Impact Assessment in Chile (2017) - EN

Regulation and emerging technologies

• Blog (with the World Bank) on Technology helps strengthen countries’ regulatory capacity to respond to COVID-19 (May 2020)
• OECD Global Conference on Governance Innovation (13-14 January 2020)
• Regulatory Effectiveness in the Era of Digitalisation (Brochure June 2019)

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OECD Regulatory Reform Support in Southeast Asia

• Regulatory Reform Review of Thailand (Forthcoming)
• Evaluation Report on Regulatory Impact Assessments (Forthcoming)
• Good Regulatory Practices to Support SMEs in Southeast Asia EN (2018)
• Business Regulation Pillars: Good Regulatory Practices for ASEAN EN (May 2017)
• Implementing Good Regulatory Practice in Malaysia EN (2015)
• Regulatory Reform Review of Indonesia EN (2012)
• Administrative Simplification in Viet Nam EN (2011)
  

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OECD Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy

• 2020 One-Stop Shops for Citizens and Business
• 2020 Regulatory Impact Assessment
• 2018 OECD Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections Toolkit
• 2014 The Governance of Regulators
• 2014 Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections

Other

• Regulation of essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for the future, blog post 16 September 2020
• Implementing Technical Regulations in Mexico EN / SP 15 June 2020
• Better regulation in Latin America as a fundamental mechanism to face the crisis and accelerate recovery - EN- ESP - 26 May 2020
• Regulatory Quality and COVID-19: Managing the risks and supporting the recovery - EN - 29 April 2020
• Regulatory Governance of the Rail Sector in Mexico - EN - 7 Feb. 2020
• Administrative simplification in the Mexican Social Security Institute - Spanish - English (2019)
• Review of the Regulation of Freight Transport in Mexico (2017), EN

Other cont.

• Improving Regulatory Governance - Trends, Practices and the Way Forward (2017)- EN
• Better Service Delivery for Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic (2017) - EN
• Water Governance in Jordan: Overcoming the Challenges to Private Sector Participation (2017) - EN / FR
• Water Governance in Tunisia: Overcoming the Challenges to Private Sector Participation (2014) - EN /  FR
• Measurement and Reduction of Administrative Burdens in Greece: An Overview of 13 Sectors (2014) EN
• Evaluating Laws and Regulations: The Case of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies (2012) - EN / SP

2020

3 September 2020
Virtual 7th Annual Meeting of International Organisations 

13 August 2020
OECD promotes regulatory reform in Latin America to boost economic recovery – webinar

11 August, September, October
Sixth ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practices Network Webinar Series: Better Regulation for Post COVID-19 Recovery

9 July 2020
OECD promotes methodologies and practices to assess regulatory policy in Mexico, Webinar

2 July 2020
OECD contributes to the design and development of rail institutions in Mexico, Webinar

12 May 2020
Regulation and regulatory improvement during the pandemic in Latin America: how to ensure the quality of the decisions?, Webinar

18 March 2020
OECD and Latin American countries highlight the state-of-play on better regulation in this region (May 2020)

17 February 2020
Yucatan moves forward in improving high-impact formalities, Mexico

13-14 January 2020
OECD Global Conference on Governance Innovation, Paris

6 January 2020
OECD supports Puebla’s efforts to redesign public service through better regulation, Mexico

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