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The Regulatory Institute’s 10th Anniversary: Looking back and forward

Since late 2015, the Regulatory Institute has focused on a particular aspect of lawmaking that receives little attention but matters enormously: how to design laws and regulations that actually work. Rather than engaging with political choices or policy outcomes or the drafting approach, our work has concentrated on the methods, tools, concepts and structures that shape laws long before they are adopted; and ultimately determine whether they will achieve their intended purpose.

This article looks back at the Regulatory Institute’s journey over the past decade: a journey dedicated to helping lawmakers and regulators worldwide create better laws. Continue reading The Regulatory Institute’s 10th Anniversary: Looking back and forward →

Cross-sectoral Standard Provisions for Regulation

This document contains mostly very general provisions. It is intended as a source of inspiration for those drafting laws and other forms of regulation in any regulatory or policy area. Readers are invited to select provisions that they consider useful for their specific regulatory or legislative task and to adapt them to their specific needs. No provision should be taken without considering the need for adaptation. Continue reading Cross-sectoral Standard Provisions for Regulation →

Analysing legislation

The Handbook “How to regulate?” has been developed to train law-makers in administrations and parliaments. But it can also be used as analytical tool. One of the author’s readers, François Mestre, analysed a regulation by applying categories of the Handbook in a slightly modified way.