Abstract
In 2007/2008, the Czech Republic has introduced governmental Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) to the central government level. This procedure has established formal rules binding to all legislative bodies. The process administration of RIA was entrusted to the Panel for a Regulatory Reform and Effective Public Administration and its permanent Committee for Quality Control of the Regulatory Impact Assessment. At the end of 2011, the RIA process has been changed and a new, independent Committee for the control of RIA proposals has been established. Based on minutes from the Committee’s discussions, the presented paper analyses fundamental trends in the RIA process in the 2008-2012 period. The general statistical overview indicates that the volume of legislation reviewed under RIA gradually decreases. On the other hand, the number of proposals not recommended by the Committee for an approval decreased from 7.1 % in 2008 to 6.9 % in 2011. After introducing the new RIA rules, the number of proposals not recommended by the new Committee for an approval during the first discussion of a proposal has dramatically increased to 81 %.
Highlights
Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is usually based on a formalized system of ex ante and ex post evaluations of possible impacts associated with different types of regulations that potentially contribute towards fulfillment of the predetermined objectives
The RIA procedure is in the Czech Republic performed for all draft legislation prepared by the central government administration, including implementations of EU regulations
The process administration of RIA was in the first phase entrusted to the Panel for a Regulatory Reform and Effective Public Administration and its permanent Committee for Quality Control of the Regulatory Impact Assessment
Summary
Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is usually based on a formalized system of ex ante and ex post evaluations of possible impacts associated with different types of regulations that potentially contribute towards fulfillment of the predetermined objectives. This approach possesses two advantages: first, it allows determining and measuring benefits and costs associated with the given type of regulation under assessment and second, it allows assessment of the best (most efficient) ways of their achievement. It focuses mainly on the analyses of a good praxis (OECD 2010, 2010a) and improving tools and techniques related to the RIA process and its assessment (OECD 2009)
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