Central quality check on procedural compliance

Legal drafts are reviewed by the CoG to ensure that dossiers are complete and consistent and that submission procedures have been followed

Complete and consistent dossiers include all required supporting documents, such as a regulatory impact assessment report, public consultation report or other opinions. Review of the full list of draft laws approved by the government during the last full calendar year. National administrations are asked to provide full information about the approved laws and all the relevant procedural and substantive checks carried out on individual laws before they were submitted to the government for final approval. Additional checks are carried out from this list, a sample of five draft laws is selected for in-depth review. Additional checks are carried out on the full package of the five selected draft laws, including comparison with the government programme and priorities from the government work plan, to verify that all of the quality control checks specified in the criteria have been undertaken. The same sample of draft laws selected for the assessment of Indicator 4 is used to assess this criterion.

Legal drafts are reviewed by the relevant CoG body to check the quality, coherence and consistency of legal drafting

Review of the full list of draft laws approved by the government during the last full calendar year. National administrations are asked to provide full information about the approved laws and all the relevant procedural and substantive checks carried out on individual laws before they were submitted to the government for final approval. Additional checks are carried out from this list, a sample of five draft laws is selected for in-depth review. Additional checks are carried out on the full package of the five selected draft laws, including comparison with the government programme and priorities from the government work plan, to verify that all of the quality control checks specified in the criteria have been undertaken. The same sample of draft laws selected for the assessment of Indicator 4 is used to assess this criterion.

Legal drafts are reviewed by the relevant CoG bodies to ensure coherence and consistency with government priorities, plans and policies

Review of the full list of draft laws approved by the government during the last full calendar year. National administrations are asked to provide full information about the approved laws and all the relevant procedural and substantive checks carried out on individual laws before they were submitted to the government for final approval. Additional checks are carried out from this list, a sample of five draft laws is selected for in-depth review. Additional checks are carried out on the full package of the five selected draft laws, including comparison with the government programme and priorities from the government work plan, to verify that all of the quality control checks specified in the criteria have been undertaken. The same sample of draft laws selected for the assessment of Indicator 4 is used to assess this criterion.

Legal drafts are reviewed by the relevant CoG body to check their financial viability

Review of the full list of draft laws approved by the government during the last full calendar year. National administrations are asked to provide full information about the approved laws and all the relevant procedural and substantive checks carried out on individual laws before they were submitted to the government for final approval. Additional checks are carried out from this list, a sample of five draft laws is selected for in-depth review. Additional checks are carried out on the full package of the five selected draft laws, including comparison with the government programme and priorities from the government work plan, to verify that all of the quality control checks specified in the criteria have been undertaken. The same sample of draft laws selected for the assessment of Indicator 4 is used to assess this criterion.

Perceived effectiveness of the CoG in policy co-ordination by civil servants (%)

Analysis of survey responses by a sample of public servants to the following question or statement: “The CoG institution (to be replaced by the actual name of the institution depending on the country - PMO, GSG) is adequately co-ordinating decision making at government level to ensure its quality and coherence”. The question is filtered to relevant officials in line ministries. Answer options are: Strongly disagree, Tend to disagree, Neither disagree nor agree, Tend to agree, Strongly agree, Do not know, Prefer not to answer. Points are allocated based on the percentage of respondents who replied “Tend to agree” and “Strongly agree” to the survey question (x): • x < 10% = 0 points • 10% ≤ x < 90% = linear function • x ≥ 90% = 6 points