What is the best source of information about national BR programmes? Answer: OECD's country reviews. These reports aim at assisting governments to improve regulatory quality, i.e.to reform regulations to foster competition, innovation, economic growth and important social objectives. The review methodology draws on the 2005 Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance updated by later OECD research and embodied in a reference "baseline". For the "older" members of the European Union (those that had joined before 2004), all the reports are being updated, some are already available, and we will soon have a complete up-to-date picture, thanks to the EU 15" project, which aims to assess capacities for effective regulatory management , through individual reviews of the MS concerned. The reports are compiled by the OECD in partnership with the European Commission. The project started in 2008 and will be completed in 2010. It will culminate in a synthesis that will highlight key conclusions and map out a path for effective regulation in support of key public policy goals (all details supplied by the OECD site). After an initial series of 4 reports, the second batch is currently being published. An overview of published reports is available online, along with some main conclusions of each report. Full text of the reports can be bought from the OECD bookshop.
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