As part of a broader OECD effort to help countries tackle the COVID-19 crisis the Regulatory Policy Division is undertaking a series of activities to take stock of evidence and country practices and help policy makers and regulators inform their decision making:

 

• Framing paper: Regulatory Quality and Covid-19: Managing the Risks and Supporting the Recovery

Regulatory decisions are vital at nearly every stage of resolving the health crisis and its social and economic effects. The current situation makes the need for trusted, evidence-based, internationally co-ordinated and well-enforced regulation particularly acute. It underlines the importance of regulation as one of the most relevant levers of government action, along with taxing, spending and communicating and the relevance of the tools and procedures recommended in the 2012 OECD Recommendation on Regulatory Policy and Governance to uphold its quality even in times of crisis.

 

• Building on the framing paper, the Regulatory Policy Division is developing a new series of papers in seven areas: 

1. Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southeast Asia
2. Removing administrative barriers, improving regulatory delivery
3. The international regulatory co-operation responses to the crisis
4. The use of new technologies to expand regulatory capacity (see World Bank blog on Technology helps strengthen countries’ regulatory capacity to respond to COVID-19)
5. The use of regulatory management tools in a time of crisis
6. Sector regulation during the COVID-19 crisis (see also blog post)
7. Behavioural insights for fast-paced decision making

 

• Webinars: A series of virtual events has been organised by the Regulatory Policy Division to share views and practices in these different areas and get guidance on the way forward: 

• 1st NER webinar: sector regulation during the COVID-19 crisis – 16 April 2020
• 2nd webinar of the International Covid-19 Behavioural Insights Working Group – 28 April 2020
• 2nd NER webinar: Regulating transportation during and after COVID-19 – 29 April 2020
• Joint OECD – World Bank Group webinar on the use of new technologies to expand regulatory capacity during the COVID-19 crisis – 7 May 2020 (background documents: World Bank Blog and Initial (an ever-green) database on initiatives that have been launched or are being contemplated by governments)
• 3rd webinar of the International Covid-19 Behavioural Insights Working Group – 12 May 2020
• IO Partnership Webinar-1: Responding to COVID-19: the IO Partnership in action – 12 May 2020
• Regulation and Regulatory Improvement in time of the Covid-19 crisis: LAC (regional event) – 12 May 2020
• Regulatory management in the times of the Covid-19 emergency – 26 May 2020
• IO Partnership Webinar-2: “Adapting decision-making procedures on rule-making and emergency ruling to exceptional circumstances” – 4 June
• Webinar on Inspections, enforcement, regulatory delivery in times of crisis –  10 June 2020
• 3rd NER webinar: Beyond the short-term pressures created by COVID-19 on regulated markets – 24 June 2020
• IO Partnership Webinar-3: “ The role of normative IOs in supporting their constituencies in managing crisis” – 30 June
• IO Partnership Webinar-4: Coordination among normative IOs to provide joint responses to a crisis – 21 July 2020
• Sixth ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practices Network, webinar series, 11 August, 5 October, 1 December 2020
• OECD promotes regulatory reform in Latin America to boost economic recovery  – 13 August 2020
• IO Partnership: Summary Note of COVID-19 Webinars – 1 October 2020
• 4th NER webinar: Economic regulators one year into the COVID crisis - changing sectors and priorities – 20 January 2021

 

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