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Poland is looking for the best anti-bureaucratic chair in Europe!

The Polish Government has launched a competition to find the best anti-bureaucratic chair in Europe! The competition aims to promote the idea of reducing bureaucracy through the application of innovative models to design a chair - a piece of furniture which is usually associated with sitting, static office work. The watchword of the competition is "Sit less, think more". The deadline for the project submission will be 3rd October. However the participants should register before 21st June. (The deadline has been extended due to huge interest and a request from the competition's partners.) On 15th October the results will be announced.

The next SCM Steering Group meeting is in Brussels on 18 June 2008

[02 January 2008]

Italian experience of using the SCM

This paper summarises the Italian experience of using the Standard Cost Model by the Department for Public Administration of the Prime Minister's Office in Italy. It covers methodological problems encountered and the advantages and disadvantages of using the method.

New Dutch initiative to use the SCM to reduce burdens from cross-border inspections

EURinSPECT works for the effective and efficient supervision and inspection of companies in Europe. It started out in the Netherlands and is based on the use of the SCM method for the measurement of the costs of supervision. EURinSPECT reflects the experiences of the Dutch government and Dutch inspectorates in their efforts to reduce administrative costs and the costs of supervision (based on the Standard Cost Model), but is aimed at European co-operation and co-ordination.

UK Better Regulation Executive launches new tools and training for Government officials on Impact Assessment and the SCM

The UK Better Regulation Executive has developed online training to give Government officials an overview of the new Impact Assessment process (launched in April) and the SCM methodology. This comes on the back of the development of the Administrative Burdens Calculator - both a tool for officials to model the impact of new proposals and the public interface with the results of the admin burden measurement exercise carried out in 2005.

The German Government has adopted it's first annual report on the use of the SCM

On 24th of october 2007 the German Cabinet has adopted the 2007 Federal Government report on the use of the Standard Cost Model "Administrative costs: the effort to identify, measure and reduce them". It comes up with the intermediate result that industry incurs costs of around 27 billion euros due to its requirement to comply with some 2.100 informations obligations. The 2.100 information obligations represent the most costly informations obligations from a stock of around 11.000 informations obligations.

Bertelsmann Stiftung to host an International Regulatory Reform Conference 9 -11 December 2007 in Berlin

In order to encourage cross-border debate on better regulation and regulatory reform, the Bertelsmann Stiftung is hosting the International Regulatory Reform Conference (IRRC) from December 9 to 11, 2007, in Berlin. The IRRC has three main objectives:

1. To bring together leading experts on regulation and regulatory quality
2. To provide an international overview of current developments in the area of regulatory reform
3. To share best practice in the area of regulatory reform in a systematic and efficient way.