NRP Portugal

• Preparation of a practical guide for the drawing up of the Government’snormativeacts.Impact evaluation of the Government’s normative acts. This evaluation will bereinforcewiththefollowingactions:• Revision of the trial SIMPLEX model used in the prior assessment of theadministrative charges of all laws subject to the approval of the Council ofMinisters,adjustingittothe“standardcostmodel”methodology.• Launch of a Practical Guide of the Prior Assessment of AdministrativeBurdens of the Government’s Normative Acts for use by the Ministriesresponsibleforthepreparinganddrawingupoflegislativeinitiatives.• Writing and presentation of an annual report by the Government with theresults of the impact evaluation of normative acts through the new trialSIMPLEXmodel.• Adoptionofanationalpledgeofa25%reductioninadministrativeburdensimposed by national legal and regulatory norms on events relevant to thecompanylifecycle.Transposition of community directives to the internal legal system, that willinvolve:• MonitoringofthetimelytranspositionofdirectivesbythePresidencyoftheCouncilofMinistersandbytheMinistryofForeignAffairs,bymeansoftheautomaticelectronicwarningsystems,themonthlyupdatingoftranspositionproceduresandtheholdingofperiodicinter‐ministerialmeetings.• Combat “gold plating” (creation of administrative charges by nationallegislation beyond those foreseen in community directives) and “doublebanking”(compatibility between directives to transposed and alreadyexistingnationallegislationonthesamematter).• ControlofthetranspositionprocedurefromsimplifiedEuropeanlegislationin the framework of the 2005/2009 simplification programme, from “fasttracks” initiated in 2007 and the Action Programme for the Reduction ofAdministrativeBurdensintheEuropeanUnion.22