Regulatory reform concerns improvements to the quality of government

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. At the international level, the "

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Regulatory Reform Programme is aimed at helping governments improve regulatory quality - that is, reforming regulations that raise unnecessary obstacles to

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innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed enti ...

and

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, while ensuring that regulations efficiently serve important social objectives".

Examples

Indonesia

The OECD produced a report in September 2012 reviewing

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's regulatory reform programme, focusing on Indonesia's administrative and institutional arrangements for ensuring that regulations are effective and efficient.

United Kingdom

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 aimed in part to "make provision for the reduction of legislative burdens". Part 5, "Reduction of legislative burdens", made provision for " sunset and review provisions" in

secondary legislation Primary legislation and secondary legislation (the latter also called delegated legislation or subordinate legislation) are two forms of law, created respectively by the legislative and executive branches of governments in representative democra ...

, i.e. *a power to review the effectiveness of the legislation within a specified period or at the end of a specified period *provision for the legislation to cease to have effect at the end of a specified day or a specified period *a power to consider whether the objectives which it was the purpose of the legislation to achieve remain appropriate and, if so, whether they could be achieved in another way. The Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 sought to improve the regulation of businesses requiring certain environmental permits within Scotland whilst strengthening existing

environmental protection Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair dam ...

United States

Executive Order 12866 Executive Order 12866 in the United States requires benefit-cost analysis for any new regulation that is "economically significant," which is defined as having "an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or adversely affect ngin a mate ...

on Regulatory Planning and Review, amended by Executive Order 13422 of January 18, 2007 *The Office of Regulatory Affairs was established in 1980 * Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 *H.R. 5 (bill), the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017. Some policy advocates argue that this bill should "more aptly ... be named the ' Filthy Food Act'".

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(CSPI)
Open letter to Campbell Soup Company, Cargill, Coca-Cola, CVS Health, Domino's Pizza, General Mills, PepsiCo, Target, Walgreens, Walmart and Yum! Brands
11 April 2017, accessed 25 April 2017

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