Speakers:
Jahi Jahija, Ministry of Information Society and Administration, Republic of
Macedonia TBC
Dragana Aleksic, Public Policy Secretariat of the Republic of Serbia
Zorana Gajic, Regional School of Public Administration (ReSPA), Montenegro
Forum of practitioners welcomes practitioners
and academics who are interested in exchanging experiences, good practices and
views on innovation in better regulation and the efforts of the governments to
improve the decision making process and policy design. EU countries, potential and
candidate countries to the EU have to follow the EU Better Regulation Agenda (EC
communication, 19 May 2015; Inter-institutional Agreement on Better Law-making,
9 March 2016) and this is a good opportunity for all practitioners from other
regions to share their views on this issue.Better regulation is a way of working to
ensure that political decisions are prepared in an open, transparent manner,
informed by the best available evidence and backed by the comprehensive
involvement of stakeholders.
Better regulation covers the whole policy
cycle – policy design and preparation, adoption, implementation (transposition
of the acquis, complementary non-regulatory actions), application (including
enforcement), evaluation and revision.
Within the European Public Administration
Principles (PAP), two principles under the chapter "Policy Development and
Coordination” are related to Better Regulation:
Principle 10 – The policy making and legal
drafting process is evidence-based and impact assessment is regularly used
across ministries
Principle 11 – Policies and legislation are
designed in an inclusive manner that enables the active participation of
society and allows for coordinating perspectives within the Government
Issues of concern:
Support to policy and legislative
development, including acquis alignment has focused more on content than on
improving the generally weak policy and legislative process:
- Concept documents on laws are often prepared as a
formality
- Poor quality or lack of regulatory and fiscal
impact assessments
- Weak inter-ministerial coordination on draft laws
and policies which often results in contradicting laws and/or policies
- Lack of systematic public consultations, or
consultations are too late in the process
- Extensive use of fast-track adoption procedures in
the parliaments
Consequences are: weak policies,
legislation and administrative capacity for implementation and /or enforcement |