The expert of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) Anna Palazova shared practical skills and guidelines on the use of regulatory analysis instruments, including testing of small business (M-test), at the workshop of a training program for regulatory policy instructors and consultants.
The BRDO expert together with the head of the department of methodological support for regulatory policy implementation Olena Krychevska participated in the practical training on preparing the regulatory impact analysis (RIA) of draft regulations on April 12, 2016.
The joint report of the State Regulatory Service and BRDO experts is the result of close cooperation to develop recommendations on preparing legislative initiatives of regulatory policy as well as practical skills in the use of regulatory analysis instruments, including the small business test – M-test.
The widespread and effective implementation of the M-test regulatory instrument in Ukraine will contribute to the government employees’ understanding of real effectiveness and practicability of introducing various regulatory levers. According to State Regulatory Service and BRDO experts, this, in turn, will increase the financial capacity of small and micro business by reducing costs for unnecessary regulation.
“The need to determine the regulation impact on business in terms of numbers will help a regulator actually forecast the practical effects of his work. This is especially important for an effective regulatory policy, because it has an effect on small business enterprises. The State Regulatory Service got the BRDO experts to take part in practical testing of a data collection mechanism and preparing the M-test. Our work resulted in practical recommendations that later can become the standards to prepare the regulation impact analysis. The State Regulatory Service experts set before us a task to demonstrate in practice that the RIA preparation is not an extremely resource-consuming and complicated procedure. In my opinion, this workshop demonstrated that we successfully dealt with this task and are ready not only to train the regulatory authority specialists, but also provide them with the professional practical assistance to analyze regulatory impact of laws and regulation,” the head of the BRDO’s “Control and Supervision” sector Volodymyr Holovatenko summed up.
While working out this program, experts of the Better Regulation Delivery Office prepared several M-tests for existing legislative initiatives of regulatory acts that affect the regulatory environment of small and micro business enterprises. In future, based on the existing experience and methods developed by the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine, the Better Regulation Delivery Office will provide the practical assistance to properly prepare the regulation impact analysis of any regulatory document – for both central and local authorities.
One of the important components of cooperation between the State Regulatory Service and BRDO is the work on the implementation of effective and reasonable regulation of small and medium businesses. Just the implementation of the SMEs policy based on ten principles of the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) provides for the introduction of the M-test.