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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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