Today the head of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) Oleksiy Honcharuk participated in the first meeting of a working group on the rolling review of regulations at the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the Deputy Minister Dmytro Romensky.
Opening the meeting, the Deputy Minister stressed that this process was very important to build a comfortable business environment in the country and improve the efficiency of regulatory environment.
“We should review all regulatory acts systematically and globally and identify those acts that prevent the business development requiring to be revised, simplified and improved,” Dmytro Romensky said and added that this process would take place in close cooperation between the Ministry and the Better Regulation Delivery Office, the State Regulatory Service and the business directly.
Oleksiy Honcharuk, in his turn, said that the main purpose of the rolling review is to assess the essence of the decisions made and their efficiency as all European countries have done.
“This will allow us not only to synchronize with the European practice, but also start creating a new standard of regulations and rules as well as increase the level of trust between businesses and the state,” he stressed.
The BRDO head said that the review was based on the Office’s Rolling Review method adopted from the British model while being simplified and adapted to the Ukrainian context. Currently, this method is refined with the help of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the State Regulatory Service and the relevant guidelines will be prepared the next week.
He also informed that the rolling review process would have three main tasks – the cleaning up of the regulatory environment from “litter”, which is more than 35% now, the quality assessment of regulatory acts and increasing the level of business involvement in the process. The rolling review will be started with the inventory, based on the results of which the public plan for the rolling review of regulations will be developed. Then there will be the assessment, the reporting and drafting amendments to improve the regulation.
Oleksiy Honcharuk assured that the BRDO Office would provide the methodological and expert assistance in the review process. The BRDO experts were included to the working group at the Ministry of Infrastructure as well as to all working groups, which is being established by other ministries.
For reference
The rolling review of all regulatory acts will be conducted in accordance with the order of the First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv. The rolling review will cover the following sectors: agriculture and food, construction, energy, transport and infrastructure, IT and telecommunications.
For the purpose of the rolling review, the line ministries established working groups that will report the results this September. The Ministry of Economic Development will coordinate this activity.
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