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Regulatory policy in Colombia : going beyond administrative simplification.

Assessment and recommendations Economic context and drivers for regulatory reform Public governance context for regulatory reform Regulatory reform developments and the main findings of the report Strategy and policies for regulatory reform Institutional capacities for regulatory reform Improved transparency through consultation and communication mechanisms The development of new regulations The management and rationalisation of existing regulation Compliance, enforcement, and appeals Ex post regulatory evaluation Multi-level regulatory governance Key recommendations Regulatory reform and policies in a national context Institutions to promote regulatory reform in Colombia Colombia’s administrative capacities for making new regulations The management and rationalisation of existing regulations in Colombia Compliance, enforcement and appeals in Colombia Ex post regulatory evaluation in Colombia Multi-level regulatory governance in Colombia Regulatory reform in Barranquilla The macroeconomic context in Colombia Charting Colombia’s economic growth Employment in the formal and informal sectors Low labour productivity Income inequality Liberalising trade Weak competition in product markets Improving the regulatory framework for entrepreneurship Strong economic outlook but Colombia’s challenges require ambitious structural reforms The contribution of regulatory reform to Colombia’s economic performance Bibliography Regulatory reform and policies in a national context The administrative and legal environment for regulatory reform in Colombia Regulatory policies and core principles Recent and current regulatory reform initiatives Policy for the simplification of formalities Government online (Gobierno en linea, GEL)Competition advocacy Policies dealing with regulation inside government International regulatory co-operation Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography Institutions to promote regulatory reform in Colombia Institutions and mechanisms to promote regulatory reform Executive Legislative Judiciary National Council on Economic and Social Policy (CONPES)Co-ordination mechanisms Organisation and governance of regulatory agencies and supervisory bodies Regulatory Commissions (Comisiones de Regulacion)Superintendencias Synergies and challenges between ministries, regulatory commissions and superintendencias Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography Colombia’s administrative capacities for making new regulations Administrative transparency and predictability Forward planning Communication Plain language The use of consultation for dialogue with affected groups Choice of policy instruments: Regulations and alternatives Legal review of regulatory proposals Potential for the use of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)Roadmap to implement RIA based on international good practices Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography The management and rationalisation of existing regulations in Colombia Reviews of the stock of regulations and formalities Centralised registries Administrative simplification initiatives Business Support Centres The one-stop shop for property registration The one-stop shop for foreign trade Competitive Regulation The Group on rationalisation and automatisation of formalities (GRAT)Administrative burdens, other simplification techniques, and general results Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography Compliance, enforcement and appeals in Colombia Approaches to regulatory enforcement and compliance Use of risk-based approaches Appealing process for regulatory decisions Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography Ex post regulatory evaluation in Colombia Ex post evaluation of regulations Ex post evaluation of regulatory programmes and institutions Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography Multi-level regulatory governance in Colombia The organisation of the Colombian territory and the distribution of regulatory attributions Multi-level co-ordination Challenges for and good practices in regulatory reform at the sub-national level Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography Regulatory reform in Barranquilla Introduction Main socioeconomic trends in Barranquilla Legal status and attributions of Barranquilla A framework to understand multi-level regulatory governance Regulatory policy in a multi-level context Regulatory institutions in a multi-level context Regulatory policy tools in a multi-level context The need for a regulatory policy in Barranquilla Institutional design in Barranquilla Organisation of the local government The District Council Institutional factors required to advance regulatory reform Stakeholder participation Multi-level co-ordination Mechanisms/institutions to advance multi-level regulatory co-ordination Inspections, compliance, and enforcement Administrative capacities of the local government for making new regulations The application of regulatory consultation at the local level Ex ante impact analyses The use of alternatives The use of risk analysis Communication and transparency of regulatory decisions Administrative simplification initiatives Anti-formalities policy Government online VUR Total quality management CAE Assessment and recommendations Notes Bibliography

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The administrative and legal environment for regulatory reform in Colombia
Improving the quality of regulation and its impact on economic performance is key to Colombia maximising the benefits of a solid macroeconomic environment, improving conditions for business activity, and boosting investment and innovation. Despite the fact that the country does not have an explicit and...
(Regulatory policy in Colombia : going beyond administrative simplification.)
Administrative simplification initiatives Anti-formalities policy
In parallel to the situation prevailing at the central level, the Government of Barranquilla has concentrated its regulatory improvement efforts on administrative simplification, based on the “chains of formalities” methodology. The local government applied specific criteria to define which chains...
(Regulatory policy in Colombia : going beyond administrative simplification.)
Regulators Should Establish a Sound Regulatory Policy Framework for Private Securities Firms
For the purpose of institutional design, regulators should lay down appropriate regulatory principles. They should lower market access requirements and simplify or even cancel the administrative examination and approval process, while specifying regulatory principles and requirements of the behavior...
(Chinese securities companies)
Social Accountability in the Regulatory Policy Process: The Governance of Telecommunications in Italy and Spain
Maria Stella Righettini and Selena Grimaldi Introduction The role of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) has expanded considerably in recent decades because political institutions increasingly tend to transfer to them regulatory powers in many policy areas (Jordana et al. 2011), thus contributing...
(Accountability and Regulatory Governance: Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation)
Accountability and the regulatory policy process
As the traditional structure of government becomes more disseminate, the problem of who the principals are in the accountability relationship turns out to be more severe. This is further reinforced by the delegation of relevant areas of the economic and political domains to independent regulatory agencies...
(Accountability and Regulatory Governance: Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation)
Regulatory policy: Towards a whole-of-govemment perspective
in recent years, Mexico has striven to improve its regulatory policy in order to support business activities, discourage informality, and promote the rule of law. recent achievements include reform of the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) system to concentrate resources on high-impact regulations; adoption...
(Getting it right : strategic agenda reforms in Mexico.)
Regulatory, Analytical, and Organizational Functions of Administration
This leads to a second dimension, namely, the distinction between regulatory, analytical (or service-oriented), and organizational administrations. The first type is characterized by the power to engage in regulatory policies as part of IOs with a regulatory mandate, for example, the EU, the UN (related...
(International Bureaucracy: Challenges and Lessons for Public Administration Research)
Institutions to promote regulatory reform in Colombia
• The GOC should establish an institutional mechanism at the centre of government to promote regulatory quality, namely an oversight body in charge of regulatory reform. • The current regulatory structure of Colombia requires an advisory mechanism at the highest political level to promote and advocate...
(Regulatory policy in Colombia : going beyond administrative simplification.)
Ex post regulatory evaluation in Colombia
• The GOC should promote the systematic use of ex post evaluation of regulations, regulatory reform programmes and institutions to make regulation more efficient and effective. Multi-level regulatory governance in Colombia • When developing a national regulatory policy, the GOC...
(Regulatory policy in Colombia : going beyond administrative simplification.)
Multi-level regulatory governance in Colombia
• When developing a national regulatory policy, the GOC should make explicit the roles that territorial entities should play to deliver better regulation, as well as the support that the central government will provide. • The central government should work with the territorial entities to develop...
(Regulatory policy in Colombia : going beyond administrative simplification.)