Most of us have received from the Board of Swedish Industry and Commerce (NNR) the English translation of its "Regulation Indicator 2009". The Regulation Indicator has been published annually since 2002 and gives a business view of the progress of Swedish government in the area of better business regulation. NNR has also published a follow-up to its 2006 report on "The Total Cost of Regulations to Businesses in Sweden". The new report includes information on how changes made to regulations during three years have affected the cost to business of complying with regulation. Results show that changes to financial regulatory obligations have had more of an impact than changes to administrative obligations on the total cost to business.
Comment: this report relates to the recent discussion on the cost of regulation - although unfortunately it does not investigates what is the proportion between EU and national legislation on the overall burden. It states that the Swedish government should make more progress in assessing gold-plating, since assessment practices to date remain partial and ad-hoc (CHM with L. Allio).
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