18 January 2019 – Law 100/2017 on normative acts requires the public official to carry out, among other things, two types of analysis in the process of drafting normative acts: ex-ante assessment and the regulatory impact assessment (RIA). RIA was to be developed for normative acts with potential impact on the business environment, and ex-ante for acts related to structural/institutional changes or producing a budgetary impact. Law 100/2017 requires the government to develop methodologies for both assessments.

Two separate methodologies would have created confusion and would have complicated the work of officials, since, according to good international practice, the impact assessment in the process of drafting normative acts has a unique approach, which can be applied to any type of act. The issue came to the attention of the experts of the Secretariat of the Economic Council, who recommended the merging of the two methodologies.

The experts of the Secretariat of the Economic Council worked with the State Chancellery, the Secretariat of the Regulatory Impact Assessment and the experts of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group to develop the single methodology for ex-ante and RIA. It was approved by the Government Decision no. 23 of 18 January 2019.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is  supported  by  the  European  Bank  for  Reconstruction  and  Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the World Bank Group project “Investment Climate Reform”, funded by the Sweden.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund.