CADS10 Castellano. 2006 - Generalitat de Catalunya

One of the objectives at the procedural level would be to achieve decentralisation of
the drafting of the ARIS in the various departments since, as mentioned previously,
decentralisation ensures horizontal integration of assessment throughout the entire
administration. The ARIS must therefore be drawn up by the officials responsible for
developing the relevant regulation.
However, this decentralisation cannot be achieved from the earliest stages of
introduction. As mentioned before, gradual introduction by steps is recommended:
a) In an initial step (two years) it is recommended for the central coordination unit
to assume the role of promoter-executor, so that the team of this unit –with the
collaboration of the departments in charge of the regulation in question–assumes
responsibility for drawing up the ARIS. This would allow the Catalonian
administration to generate its own expertise in the area of ARIS.
b) In a second step (third year), decentralisation can begin with a pilot test in a given
department of the Generalitat de Catalunya. This would require joint drafting of
the ARIS by the Department promoting the regulation and the central unit.
The period of pilot experiments can have a variable duration. In any case, the central
unit, in addition to maintaining its tasks of promotion and coordination, can gradually
lose its role as an executor to take on a role of quality control guide/consultant/manager.
The underlying idea is for the tasks of drawing up the ARIS and controlling the
quality of the assessment finally to be performed separately, in order to try to assure
an objective follow-up and review process that is independent from the drafting
process.
Finally, we must not forget to mention that, given the profound change to the
regulatory process implied by an ARIS, it is expected that it would be necessary to
carry out awareness campaigns and to train the entire Administration. These
campaigns must not only deal with communicating the contents and method of the
ARIS but rather –to a greater extent– they must be used to trigger a change in the
administrative culture that includes using an assessment instrument such as ARIS.
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