As announced by this blog at the end of January, a new policy has been announced by the Governement of the Netherlands, the leader in cutting red tape and originator of the SCM (standard cost model). The translation into English is now official, but not yet online. This blog has been sent the full text, which cannot be copied here, but here is one of the key paragraphs of the announcement.
The Government coalition agreement establishes a quantitative objective for reducing the administrative burden for businesses: a 10% reduction in net costs to 2012 and a 5% reduction in costs for subsequent years.
Regulatory burden is about more than just the administrative burden. The Businesses' Regulatory Burdens Commission is clear: businesses also see compliance costs, poor service on the part of the government and supervisory costs as 'regulatory costs'. The Programme does not therefore solely deal with the administrative burden. The Government wants to bring about a reduction in the regulatory burden experienced by the business sector. Therefore also qualitative reduction measure will be taken.
The approach to achieving these goals can be divided into four overlapping and complementary components:
A. quantitative targets;
B. preventing new regulatory burden;
C. improving services;
D. trust and supervision. (end of quote)
Experts will want to examine each word and sentence of this text which is rich in innovations to be clarified in coming weeks. Readers will be informed as soon as the full text is uploaded on an official NL site.
The Government coalition agreement establishes a quantitative objective for reducing the administrative burden for businesses: a 10% reduction in net costs to 2012 and a 5% reduction in costs for subsequent years.
Regulatory burden is about more than just the administrative burden. The Businesses' Regulatory Burdens Commission is clear: businesses also see compliance costs, poor service on the part of the government and supervisory costs as 'regulatory costs'. The Programme does not therefore solely deal with the administrative burden. The Government wants to bring about a reduction in the regulatory burden experienced by the business sector. Therefore also qualitative reduction measure will be taken.
The approach to achieving these goals can be divided into four overlapping and complementary components:
A. quantitative targets;
B. preventing new regulatory burden;
C. improving services;
D. trust and supervision. (end of quote)
Experts will want to examine each word and sentence of this text which is rich in innovations to be clarified in coming weeks. Readers will be informed as soon as the full text is uploaded on an official NL site.
I would dearly like to assess a copy of the new Dutch policy and also commentary on same. Can anybody make a suggestion on how I can do this and perhaps share a link? Thanks Bethany (regulatory.reform@derm.qld.gov.au)
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