The Italian Institutional Design for Administrative Simplification HIGH LEVEL REGIONAL SEMINAR ON ST

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The Italian Institutional Design
forAdministrative SimplificationHIGH LEVEL
REGIONAL SEMINAR ON STRATEGIES, TOOLS
ANDCAPACITIES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION

• Cairo, Egypt
• 20-21 June 2007
• Fiorenza BARAZZONI
• Head of the Secretariat of the Unit for
  Simplification and Quality of Regulation

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The institutional framework for administrative
simplification
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Institutional framework different options

• Single purpose entities
• Administrative simplification agencies
• Regulatory reform agencies
• External committees
• A combination of different structures

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A. The Italian Structure

• Inter-ministerial Committee
• Tavolo permanente for Simplification
• Unit for Simplification and Quality of Regulation
  (7 Working Groups of Experts and Technical
  Secretariat)

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Inter-ministerial Committee Political leadership
and guidelines on better regulation

• Chaired by the Prime Minister
• Composition
• Under Secretary of the Presidency of the Council
  of Ministers
• Minister for Public Administration Reform and
  Innovation
• Minister for Regional and Local Affairs
• Minister for European Policies
• Minister for the Implementation of the Government
  program
• Minister of the Interior
• Minister for the Relations with Parliament
• Minister of Economy and Finance
• Minister for Economic Development.

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Tavolo Permanente for Simplification

• It represents a stable form of consultation
• It is formed by

• Inter-Ministerial Committee
• Regions and Local Governments
• Social and Economic Actors

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Unit for Simplification and Quality of Regulation
Tasks

• coordinating the legislative process, ensuring
  the implementation of the better regulation
  policies and tools
• supporting the identification of the Action Plan
  priority areas and developing better regulation
  proposals for action

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Unit for Simplification and Quality of Regulation
Structure

• chaired by the Under secretary of State, the Unit
  comprises 20 high-level experts and a network of
  the Heads of the Legislative Offices (in relation
  to those Ministers with better regulation
  competences)
• a Technical Secretariat, led by an Executive
  Coordinator, with a competent team of 20 officials

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Unit for Simplification and Quality of Regulation
The Unit meets in plenary sessions, as well as in
7 working groups of experts

• Taglia-leggi (cut-laws legislative guillotine)
• Measurement and Reduction of Administrative
  Burdens
• Regulation on Impact Assessment (Light Approach)
• Reduction of Procedural Length
• Re-engineering of Administrative Processes
• Participation with Regions, Local Governments and
  Social Actors
• Control and Check of Quality Indicators

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B. The Italian Strategies

• Adoption of an annual Action Plan on
  Simplification and Quality of Regulation
• Reduction of Administrative Burdens
• Administrative Simplification
• Ex Ante Measures Light RIA
• Regions and Municipalities Better Regulation

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The Action Plan links

• strategic goals
• actions
• assessment and evaluation of results
• improvement of competitiveness and welfare

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The Action Plan determines

• main simplification and better regulation goals
• involved institutions
• timetable of planned actions
• framework of legislative and administrative
  governmental policies

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The Action Plan is focused on Results

• real reduction of administrative burdens
• administrative simplification
• innovative organization and technology to
  reengineer the administrative procedures

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Administrative Burdens

• administrative burdens reduction target of 25 as
  indicated by the EU Commission
• participation to the EU Commission Action
  Programme
• AB Measurement based on EU SCM methodology
• a Plan for administrative burdens reduction on
  national priority areas (e.g. privacy,
  environment, welfare and contributions, safety
  and risk)

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Administrative Burdens

• Reduction of burdens for business e.g.
• single communication for business start-up
• abolition and simplification of red tape for new
  enterprises
• Reduction of burdens for citizens e.g.
• single communication to the register office the
  data will be sent by the public administration in
  case of changes of residence
• simplification and reengineering of procedures
  for migrants, to obtain/renew permits of
  residence, visa for work or to ease family
  reunification

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Administrative Simplification

• Time reduction and certainty of
  administrative procedures length
• target 10 reduction of times for administrative
  procedures
• procedural time measurement and evaluation of
  best practices
• public administrations obliged to pay a monetary
  compensation to citizens in case of deadlines
  infringements

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Administrative Simplification

• Transparency and e-government
• availability of information on procedures,
  deadlines and needed documents through a web
  portal
• digital communication among central PA to
  eliminate the paperwork exchange digital
  signature code of digital administration

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Ex Ante Measures Light RIA

• Development of a light RIA checklist for
  major regulatory proposals including
• affected categories
• consideration of different options
• evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of the
  options for the affected parties
• justification of the preferred options
• Fostering its use among the national Public
  Administrations

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Regions and Local Governments Better Regulation

• AGREEMENT between State, Regions, Provinces,
  Local Communities and Municipalities (March 29th,
  2007)
• State and Regions are committed to
  simplification, reducing the amount of laws
  through codification and recasting
• common methodologies on RIA and Evaluation clause
• joint administrative burdens reduction target of
  25 (as indicated by the European Council)
• common initiatives on training for Public
  Administrations
• unified manuals on legislative drafting and
  standardization
• State Regions working group to monitor the
  implementation of the agreement