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08 June 2012

Kenya accelerates regulatory reforms

According to an online news article of The Star, one of the leading Kenyan papers, and other sources reporting an statement from the minister in charge, the Kenyan government has formed a Regulatory Reform Working Committee to coordinate all the regulatory reforms required for doing business in Kenya and follow the recommendations of the 2011/12 Doing Business Report. A Business Regulatory Reform Unit has been established in the Ministry of Finance to implement the reforms under the guidance of RRWC.”
To improve the country’s overall investment climate in future, the government has developed an implementation matrix that serves as a strategy document for improving performance in the next ranking. “A system of regulatory impact Assessment has also been developed with clear guidelines and will be launched soon,” the minister said. A Business Regulation Bill is currently under consideration to provide for the establishment of an electronic registry for business, in connection with a National Single Window System intended to integrate and enable the sharing of trade and regulatory data.

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