REGULATION IMPACT ASSESMENT (RIA)

The reports and papers that you find on this page are the result of IME efforts to assess costs and benefits of different economic policies and legislative changes, implementing the methodology used by the UK government, US government, OECD and other good practices of public debate over impact of proposed regulations.

Pre-Feasibility Study of the Establishment of a Better Regulation Unit in Bulgaria
IME, 2003

This in-depth overview of the current situation has been completed in order to assess the design and purpose of a provisional establishment of the Better Regulation Unit (BRU).
The existing legislative framework and unwritten rules may, paradoxically, both facilitate and hinder the activities of the Unit. This is especially true for the draft consultation process and for the data collected and disseminated by the administrative units.
The unit will be designed to promote the principles of good regulation throughout central and local government, to remove unnecessary, outmoded or over-burdensome legislation and to control secondary legislation and its enforcement. To support the administrative reforms in Bulgaria the BRU will not only prepare guidelines and enforce better regulation principles but will also assist relevant government agencies with consultations and in-depth studies on particular regulatory issues (as it is in some OECD countries and especially in the UK with its Regulatory Impact Unit and Better Regulation Task Force that prepares impact assessment studies).

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Is the psoposed Bulgarian government strategy on municipal watse separation cost efficient?
Maria Velkova, Environmental Change and Management, University of Oxford
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"Trial-and-error" or preliminary regulatory impact assessment?
Latchezar Bogdanov, IME
George Ganev, PhD, CLS
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Efficiency of the Health Reform
By Latchezar Bogdanov and Assenka Yonkova
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How the investment projects in Maritza East may be evaluated?
By Dr. Krassen Stanchev and Latchezar Bogdanov
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Laws and Wealth
By Dr. Krassen Stanchev, Latchezar Bogdanov, Petya Mandova, Martin Dimitrov
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Myths About International Trade
By Latchezar Bogdanov and Georgi Stoev
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Liberalization of the Energy Market in Bulgaria
By Dr. Krassen Stanchev and Latchezar Bogdanov
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Draft SME Act: Assessment of Implementation Problems and Institutional Impact
By Krassen Stanchev, Latchezar Bogdanov, George Ganev
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The Price of the Legal Software
By Yordanka Gancheva
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Possible Impacts of Tourism Activities Licensing in Bulgaria
By Georgi Stoev
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Legal and Regulatory Reform: Impacts on Private Sector Growth
IME
The report is the first attempt for a comprehensive overview of the legal and regulatory reforms in the country from the point of view of their impact on private sector development in 1998-1999.
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Ministerial Intervention in Road Freight Transportation
By Krassen Stanchev and George Ganev
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Companies' expenditures related to the abolishment of the "zeros"
IME
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World Bank Strategy Document for Yugoslavia: Outsiders Comments and Recommendation on Issues Related to Public Governance, Privatization and Labor Market
IME
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Effectiveness of Public-Private Dialogue in Bulgaria
By Petya Mandova
This paper is focused on current procedures, legal barriers to participate in decision-making process, common topics of dialogue. It presents several cases of institutionalized dialogue.
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Current Regulation Drafting Procedure
By Petya Mandova and Latchezar Bogdanov
The report presents the results from a case study on the document flow and regulatory procedure. The interviews with public officials in three branches of the executive power (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Agriculture) were held in a three-week period.
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