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Title: Regulatory Impact Assessment in Greece


1
Regulatory Impact Assessment in Greece
  • Dr. P.Karkatsoulis
  • Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Interior,
    Public Administration and Decentralization,
    Professor at the National School of Public
    Administration

2
The background of regulatory reform in Greece
  • Several fragmented efforts on
  • Simplification
  • Codification
  • Transposition
  • Law drafting
  • Intensive discussion inside and outside Greece
  • OECD report (2001)
  • EU policy on Better Regulation (2002)

3
The size of the norm flow
  • European Union
  • EU-Aquis composed by 16.000 Directives covers
    96.000 pages.
  • Greece
  • 3430 Parliamentary laws in the last 30 years, 5
    times more Presidential decrees authorized by the
    law and 63 times more ministerial decisions.

4
Main problems
  • The main problems of the Greek regulatory system
    were identified as
  • There are too many and very detailed regulations
    in force
  • Provisions on the same issues are interspersed to
    different regulations
  • The increasing production of regulations by the
    administration

5
Regulatory Inflation
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Dispersed Horizontal Structure
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • For notification of the transposed aquis
  • Ministry of Economics
  • For the transposition of the aquis
  • General Accounting Office
  • For the impact on state budget
  • Ministry of Interior
  • For simplification and codification issues
  • Central Committee for the preparation of
    legislation
  • For technical suggestions on bills
  • Council of the State
  • Consulted for Presidential Decrees
  • Parliament

8
Do we know the reasons why does it happen?
  • Some basic assumptions
  • The form of the state
  • The existing legislative culture
  • The welfare state
  • Unexpected social events/periods of fast social
    movements
  • International Organizations
  • State intervention to economic transactions

9
Crucial achievements
  • One stop shops for citizens and businesses
  • Sufficient infrastructure (e government)
  • Pool of experts

10
Lack of a regulatory reform strategy
  • While the weaknesses of the legislative
    instrumentarium are well known, the measures
    taken were mostly conceived as ad hoc reactions.
  • The new IAs (energy, telecom, competition) have
    been used as driving forces for the new era of
    better regulation.

11
The EU Better Regulation
  • Mandelkern report
  • It describes a comprehensive overall approach to
    better regulation.
  • It recommends practices applicable to both
    national governments and the European Commission.
  • It also makes recommendations to the Institutions
    of the EU
  • Commissions Action plan
  • It launched a series of measures to review the
    body of existing law.
  • The European IA
  • It aims to improve the quality of the
    Commission's policy proposals in terms of their
    efficiency, effectiveness and coherency.
  • It identifies alternative policy options and
    their likely positive and negative impacts, with
    a particular focus on economic, environmental and
    social effects, in line with the EU Sustainable
    Development Strategy
  • The DEBR network
  • The DEBR performs an advocacy role, promoting
    best practices and initiating new thinking.
  • It promotes the exchange of national practices
  • The DEBR is capable of adding value to the EU
    level debate by staging a dialogue about issues
    that are not on the official EU agenda yet.

12
The legal framework for regulatory reform
  • Following the OECD recommendations (2001) and the
    EU priorities, Greece established an
    inter-ministerial Committee to elaborate a new
    framework for the improvement of regulation .
  • The ad hoc inter-ministerial legislative
    Committee had to overcome a lot of obstacles,
    misunderstandings and peculiarities.
  • The draft remained in queue more than two
    years, until

13
The legal framework for regulatory reform
  • .The Prime Minister issued a circular on the
    national regulatory policy and the quality and
    effectiveness of regulations, on July 2006.
  • The circular was addressed to
  • Ministers
  • Deputy Ministers
  • The Secretary General of the Government
  • The Secretaries General of all Ministries
  • The Secretaries General of the Regions

14
The Prime Ministers circularThe procedures of
better law making
  • Identify the problem to which the proposed
    regulation is going to give a solution
  • Assess the impact of the regulation on
  • the Economy (i.e. competitiveness, investment,
    market, administrative burdens imposed on SMEs
    etc)
  • Society (i.e. labour, gender mainstreaming,
    health, persons with disabilities )
  • The environment
  • Alternative options to regulation should be
    considered
  • Achieve a consensus through broad public
    participation

15
The Prime Ministers circularStructures
Supervised by the General Secretariat of the
Government
16
The Prime Ministers circularPrinciples of
better regulation
17
The Prime Ministers circularTools of better
regulation RIA
  • According to the Prime Ministers circular
    regulations should be checked against
  • Their impact on the economy
  • Their impact on competitiveness
  • The simplification of procedures
  • Quality law drafting rules/Accessibility
  • Codification
  • Transposition

18
Multi level government
  • The criteria of better regulation should be
    implemented in the case of
  • A new regulation
  • A regulation which is going to be simplified
  • A regulation which is going to be codified
  • A regulation which transposes an EU directive

19
The way forward
  • Manual on the use of e RIA has been elaborated
  • Specific Action plans requested from each
    Ministry
  • Ex post Impact Assessment prepared for the end
    of 2007
  • All the Ministries have to have finished the RIA
    implementation project by the end of 2007

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Thank you for your attention
  • Dr. Panagiotis Karkatsoulis
  • pkark_at_otenet.gr
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