Established policy on administrative simplification
Expert review of laws, strategy and planning documents. Interviews with central co-ordinating function for administrative simplification (e.g. PM’s office). Interviews with the business community and NGOs. To determine whether the required processes for impact assessment are followed routinely in practice, expert review of regulations, interviews with representatives of the relevant quality-control body and analysis of five sample policy proposals (which must be the five last proposals approved by the government).
2 points are awarded for each of the following six criteria (total of 12 points).
Criteria fulfilled: 6/6
Yes
No
No data available / not assessed
| A formally approved plan, not older than five years, is in place (as a separate policy document or as part of either the general service delivery policy or the digital service delivery policy) that establishes clear objectives for administrative simplification (2 points) | |
| Explicit actions are defined to achieve the objectives (e.g. administrative guillotine) (2 points) | |
| Responsibility for steering administrative simplification is explicitly assigned to a central institution or unit (2 points) | |
| Evidence is provided that over the last five years, at least three laws or regulations or service delivery processes have been amended in order to simplify administrative procedures, with documentary evidence submitted that demonstrates a reduction in cost or time (2 points) | |
| Regulatory Impact Assessment procedures (or equivalent ex-ante analysis of impacts of laws and regulations) specifically include the obligation to analyse the administrative burden on citizens, businesses and other legal entities (2 points) | |
| Impact assessment of policies (including assessment of the administrative burden) was routinely carried out in practice in all of the sample proposals (2 points) |