Advancing Better Regulation and Administrative Simplification in SIGMA Partner Administrations

A thematic, high-level workshop where senior government officials and experts from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo^*, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine discussed the key findings of the latest SIGMA monitoring reports, focusing on the current challenges in advancing better regulation and administrative simplification in the region.

Participants discussed priority reform areas and topics within the framework of a thematic discussion paper on regulatory practices across the region and exchanged about key findings and conclusions of the OECD high-level symposium on Simplifying for Success. 

• Opening session
  Welcoming remarks, introductions and objectives
  Gregor Virant, Head of SIGMA Programme

• Session 1: Setting the scene: Key challenges in advancing better regulation, administrative simplification and evidence-based policymaking in the region
  Bagrat Tunyan, SIGMA

• Session 2: OECD and international perspectives and best practices in advancing better regulation, RIA and administrative simplification
  Daniel Trnka, Deputy Head of the Regulatory Policy Unit, OECD

• Session 3: EU Better Regulation agenda: current policies, instruments and simplification priorities
  Dorota Denning, Cabinet of the Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification, European Commission

• Session 4: Government policy on better regulation and administrative simplification: Different organisational models, but the same objective. How it works in practice
  Short interventions by selected administrations, followed by a discussion, facilitated by Egle Rimkute, SIGMA.

• Session 5: Challenges of embedding RIA in the policymaking process and linking it with other tools to deliver better results
  Short interventions by selected administrations, followed by a discussion, facilitated by Timo Ligi, SIGMA.

• Session 6: Challenges in enhancing RIA quality and measuring administrative burdens
  Short interventions by selected administrations, followed by a discussion, facilitated by Jose Diaz, SIGMA.

• Concluding session
  Planning for the future: Identifying key priorities for reforms and next steps.