Reducing Administrative Burdens -Initiatives- General Secretariat of the Government Public Policy Department Conference on Good Governance and Public Administrative Reform Bucharest, 6 December 2007

Context As a EU member, Romania has to measure administrative costs and reduce administrative burdens which are imposed by the national legislation on business and citizens; Romania has to define a national target for reducing administrative burdens until the end of 2008 Better regulation initiative in Romania

Administrative burdens Recommendation: Focusing on information requirements, on administrative activities and not on the general impact of an regulation

Common principles for reducing administrative burdens - reducing the frequency of information requirements - verifying if there are not overlapping in the information requirements and eliminate the possible overlapping - using internet for collecting information - introducing ceilings for information requirements - introducing risk analysis when limiting the information requirements by evaluating the impact of a wider limitation - analyzing and clarifying those normative acts who are interfering with the business activity European Commission

Next steps for reducing administrative burdens Type of assessment Resources Legal intervention Starting date Ex-post; scanning, LM LM experts, CCU Minister order/decision Immediately Ex-post; in-depth analysis, LM LM experts, CCU, external consultants GD or law Start of 2008 Ex-post; analysis cross ministerial 2008 Ex-ante; LM & cross ministerial 2009

Institutional arrangements The Central Coordination Unit – coordinating and verifying the quality of the process Members CCU: General Secretariat of the Government, National Prognosis Commission, Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, the Department for Business Environment. Working groups and line ministries: Proposing simplifying the administrative procedures – first phase Measuring administrative costs and intoducing them in the simplification plans

Technical assistance for reducing administrative burdens Dutch Government - MATRA Program Technical assistance for elaborating the action plan for reducing administrative burdens Standard Cost Model European Commission – Operational Program: Straightening the Administrative Capacity Measuring administrative costs Implementing a standard methodology Monitoring and evaluating the process

Measuring administrative costs and reducing administrative burdens Audit Company company X company Y company Z STANDARD COST MODEL Conformity/ adaptation Conformity costs Measuring costs conformity obligations Information requirements Administrative costs Results of the research Reports information Reducing administrative burdens legislation CONTROL Evaluating legislation Simplification plans Public administration