‌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 Measuring Regulatory Performance. 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).

Session 1: Why reduce compliance costs? The impact of regulatory burdens on growth and welfare outcomes

• Gregory Bounds, Deputy Head, Daniel Trnka, Policy Analyst, and Christiane Arndt, Programme Co-ordinator Measuring Regulatory Performance, Regulatory Policy Division, OECD
• Prof. Colin Kirkpatrick, Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Manchester
• Estimated gains in GDP growth
  

Session 2a: Measuring compliance costs – Methodologies and institutional arrangements

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

Session 2b: Measuring compliance costs – Integrating practical methodologies in impact assessments

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

Session 3: Maximising benefits of regulations

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

Session 4: Controlling regulatory expenditures - from measurement to impact

• Thomas Larouche, Senior Policy Analyst, Policy Division, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• Charles-Henri Montin, Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France
• Julian Farrel, 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
• Guidelines on the Identification and Presentation of Compliance Costs in Legislative Proposals by the Federal Government, 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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