possible or necessarily in the best interest of citizens for all risks to be removed. A risk-based approach to the design and … implementation of regulation can help to ensure that regulatory approaches are efficient, effective and account for risk …/risk tradeoffs across policy objectives. Risk-based approaches to the design of regulation and compliance strategies can improve the …

Regulatory Reform Review of Brazil analyses sectors that create barriers to competition, such as regulations that create … standards. The review identifies areas for reform to bring the country’s regulations and institutional arrangements more in line …

This report examines the form regulation should take in rail freight markets to promote efficiency in railways and the … Europe is reviewed. The need for regulation differs by market and, together with political constraints, this means that …

OECD's 2000 review of regulatory reform in Spain. It finds that Regulatory reform has been crucial to Spain’s high … state-owned enterprises, liberalised state controls, engaged in sectoral re-regulation and institution-building, and … strengthened competition policy. Spain has gained significant economic benefits from these measures: lower prices and interest …

the Council adopted the 1995 Recommendation on Improving the Quality of Government Regulation and its checklist as the … first international standard on regulatory quality, and the 1997 Report on Regulatory Reform and its Principles of good … regulation. Since 1997, the OECD has carried out a series of country reviews based on the Principles, which have documented …