© OECD A joint initiative of the OECD and the European Union, principally financed by the EU Seminar on Administrative Simplification Seminar on Administrative Simplification Malgorzata Kaluzynska Poland Ankara 8-9 May 2008

Content Role of an overall administrative procedure legal framework Actions for reducing administrative burdens How effective are administrative simplification policies? Factors of success and failure

Framework As of 2006, an explicit Better Regulation strategy is being put in place - the Regulatory Reform Programme Comprehensive programme defining an integrated approach to regulatory management policy A three-stage plan for the implementation of the Standard Cost Model (SCM) for measuring administrative costs of regulation

Sigma review – regulatory management capacity Approved pilot project launched to verify the usefulness of SCM in Poland Recommended the implementation of a policy on simplification with more concrete actions

Simplification as part of Regulatory Reform RIA Simplification Admin burden reduction TransparencyCommunication in consultation Think small first Implementation

Delivery of simplification policy in Poland The most active reformer in 2004, with the Freedom of Economic Activity Act Administrative burden reduction target Deregulation of business licensing Service directive as simplification driver

Actions for reducing administrative burdens Pilot project launched in 2004 Regular measurement since % reduction target to be achieved in 2010 –7 areas of legislation: environment, social security, spatial planning, starting a business, hallmarking, labour law, tourist services Baseline measurement in 2008

Deregulation of business licensing Review of the 168 existing pieces of legislation and identification of 400 licenses Questionnaire aimed at the administration to check the procedures In 2006 more than licenses where issues 1 million 300 thousand in registers Legal review of 50 pieces of legislation Impact assessment study

Service directive as simplification driver Obligation to –review the legislation –Introduce one-contact-point –Introduce lex silencio Covering both service an non-service activities

How effective are administrative simplification policies? Too early to evaluate – programmes are running Enable to spotlight the problem Enable to identify the origin and scope of problem Enable to change the way the administration is being pictured

Factors of success Resources both financial and human –EU funding to be addressed at simplification and administrative burden policies Use of methodologies like SCM Political support – priority of a government External drivers for simplification

Factors of failure - initiative inflation Special Committee “Friendly State” Think-tanks and academics Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection Stakeholders: Black List of Barriers to Entrepreneurship Legislative trash action