​​​​​​​Regulatory burden assessment training and methodological assistance

View our instructional videos here:

1) Regulatory burden – what are they and why it’s important to assess and reduce them.

2) How to assess and calculate the change in regulatory burden. Assessment steps and common mistakes.

3) Practical regulatory burden assessment examples.

To help facilitate administrative burden and compliance cost assessment and assist legislative drafters with the application of the methodology, the Guidelines on Applying the Methodology for Assessing the Administrative Burden and Compliance Costs for Business have been prepared. Access the Guidelines on Applying the Methodology here: Guidelines on Applying the Methodology for Assessing the Administrative Burden and Compliance Costs for Business. In order to help drafters of legislation understand the structure of regulatory burden, specialists at the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation have developed a practical tool — a calculator that helps assess the regulatory burden expected to result from draft legislation. You can find the calculator here.

In order not to evaluate trivial costs, the government resolution and the methodology provide for the following exceptions for evaluating administrative burden and compliance costs:

1st exception: Regarding administrative burden – where it takes less than 2 hours a year for an economic operator to fulfil its information obligations and where such an obligation applies to fewer than 20 economic operators, the change in administrative burden is not assessed.

2nd exception: Regarding compliance costs – where an obligation does not require investment costs and the obligation does not apply to more than 5 economic operators, the change in compliance costs is not assessed.