CADS10 Castellano. 2006 - Generalitat de Catalunya

Organisation
• Up until recently, three departments were sharing responsibility for the management
of regulatory quality policies, specifically the Department for Economic Affairs,
the Department of Environment and the Department of Justice. Do they still share
responsibility for regulatory quality policies? Also for RIA? Is the Proposed Legislation
Desk still managed by the 3 ministries? Has the overall responsibility for RIA
moved to the Department of Economic Affairs?
• How many people works at the Proposed Legislation Desk?
• Which are their academic backgrounds?
• How is it structured (departments)?
• What’s its budget?
• The Ministry of Economic Affairs is in charge of the revision regarding the Business
Impact Assessment, is there a person in the ministry in charge of the revisions?
• The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment is in charge of the
revision regarding the Environmental Impact Checklist, do they have a person in
charge of the revision?
• Centre of expertise in enforcement. What is it exactly? Does it belong to the
Ministry of Justice?
• Capacity-building of department officials. Public (other actors involved):
– How do department officials know how to identify actors?
– How do department officials know what are the alternatives to regulation? (is it
included in the capacity-building, do they use consultation?).
Process: Consultation
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• When do public consultations take place?
• Who selects the actors? (policy-maker, department official)
• Which type of actors participate? Which non-governmental actors usually participate?
• Which actors should be involved apart from the ones already involved? Why don’t
they participate? Do citizens participate in the process?
• Do they use any techniques to motivate actors? Capacity-building of other actors
involved in the process (citizens, etc.)
• Are there official guidelines for consultation?
• vIs consultation compulsory? (Take into consideration that the RIA is not public during
the consultation phase but when the draft legislation is sent to Parliament)
• Duration of the consultation process (is there a established period of time for
consultation?)
• Is it compulsory to take into consideration the results of consultations?
• Perceived weak and strong points of the process.