Trend in RIA adoption across OECD jurisdictions

Note: Based on data from 36 countries and the European Commission.

Source: 2014 and 2017 Regulatory Indicators Survey results, Measuring Regulatory Performance.

Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) is a systemic approach to critically assessing the positive and negative effects of proposed and existing regulations and non-regulatory alternatives. As employed in OECD countries it encompasses a range of methods. It is an important element of an evidence-based approach to policy making.

OECD analysis shows that conducting RIA within an appropriate systematic framework can underpin the capacity of governments to ensure that regulations are efficient and effective in a changing and complex world. Some form of RIA has now been adopted by all OECD members, but they have all nevertheless found the successful implementation of RIA administratively and technically challenging.

Publications

• How do laws and regulations affect competitiveness: The role for regulatory impact assessment (3 February 2021)
• Regulatory Management and Oversight Reforms in Thailand (2020)
• Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight in Austria (2020)
• Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy: Regulatory Impact Assessment - FR (2020)
• Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Netherlands (2020)
• Implementing RIA in the Central Government of Peru - ESP (2019)
• Better Regulation Practices across the European Union (2019)
• OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2018 (2018)
• RIA in Chile (2017)
• Promoting Inclusive Growth through Better Regulation (2016)
• OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2015 (2015)
• Regulatory Policy in Perspective: A Reader's Companion to 2015 Regulatory Policy Outlook (2015)
• Implementing Good Regulatory Practice in Malaysia (2015)
• Sustainability in Impact Assessments: A Review of Impact Assessment Systems in Selected OECD Countries and the European Commission (2012)
• Integrating the Environment in Regulatory Impact Assessments (2011)
• Regulatory Impact Analysis: A Tool for Policy Coherence (2009)
• Introductory Handbook for Undertaking Regulatory Impact Analysis (2008), RUS
• Building an Institutional Framework for Regulatory Impact Analysis: Guidance for Policy Makers (2008)
• Indicators of Regulatory Management Systems (2007) 
• RIA in OECD Countries and Challenges for Developing Countries (2005)
• RIA Inventory (2004)
• Regulatory Impact Analysis – Best Practices in OECD Countries (1997)
• Ten good practices in the design and implementation of RIA (1997)

Latest updates 

10 March 2021
Learning from Australia’s oversight of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)

3 February 2021
How do laws and regulations affect competitiveness: The role for regulatory impact assessment

18 December 2020
A closer look at proportionality and threshold tests for RIA: Annex to the OECD Best Practice Principles on Regulatory Impact Assessment

3-12 November 2020
OECD supports Peru's water regulator to improve the quality of its regulation, Virtual workshop

22 June 2020
Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight in Austria

21 April 2020
Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Netherlands

25 February 2020
Best Practice Principles for Regulatory Policy: Regulatory Impact Assessment

Forthcoming 2020
RIA in the Philippines

Workshops and seminars

• OECD supports Peru's water regulator to improve the quality of its regulation, Virtual workshop, 3-12 November 2020
• Promoting better regulation in Israel, Rishon LeZion, Feb. 2020
• OECD supports Peru's water regulator in improving regulation, Dec. 2019
• Improving the quality of regulation in Costa Rica, San Juan, 2017
• Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), Lima, Peru, 2017
• RIA for the Transport Infrastructure Regulator of Peru (OSITRAN), Lima Peru, 2017
• Peru's Energy Regulator (OSINERGMIN) begins RIA implementation, Lima, Peru, 2016
• Measuring Regulatory Performance: Embedding Regulatory Policy in Law and Practice, Reyjavik, 2015
• Embedding RIA in Colombia, Bogota, 2015
• Elaborating and evaluating RIA in Colombia, Bogota, 2015