Regional Conference in South East Europe

Regulatory Reform: Cleaning up the Stock of Regulations

Lessons from Croatia's HITROREZ (view presentation)
Vedran Antoljak
Managing Director, Sense Consulting

Italy's Approach to the Legal Review of Regulations (view presentation)
Mario Martelli
Permanent Expert, Better Regulation Unit, Simplification Ministry PMO, Italy

Moldova's Experience with the Guillotine Regulatory Review (view presentation)
Eugeniu Osmochescu
Technical Director, USAID BIZTAR project

Moderator
Andreja Marušić
Head, Regulatory Review Unit, Serbia

Reviewing and improving legislation is at the heart of accomplishing business environment reform. How exactly do governments approach such a broad task was the topic of this conference workshop, in which regulatory reform experts shared experiences from the national-level regulatory review in three countries, Croatia, Italy and Moldova. The discussion showed the importance of securing the support of high-level leadership for reform, understanding and securing the institutional mechanisms necessary to make the project successful, establishing criteria and scope of regulatory review, and identifying and involving the business community and other experts and stakeholders, in addition to ensuring collaboration from the ministries. Another critical area to take into consideration is the interplay between the sub-national and national regulation in terms of obstacles to the business environment, in order to understand where to target reform efforts.