MINISTRY OF ECONOMY Guidelines for the Regulation Impact Assessment
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values is called discounting. A description of this method is given
further in this document.
AKK has some limitations too. These include, among other things:
limited access to numerical data, limitations of the budgets, documents,
studies, time limits put on the surveys. If these factors occur all
together, one strengthens the other and has an adverse effect on the
outcome of such an analysis. It is advisable to use this method, at first,
at a smaller scale, only to measures of the highest public expectation
whose implementation really depends on the balance of costs and
benefits. We should not use it for solutions that will have to be adopted
anyway or have no alternative solutions at all.
This method should be considered as a target method, a goal of a long-
time process of gaining experience, at the beginning used only to
selected measures mentioned above and to measures which are less
complex or involve fewer public ramifications and, more importantly,
which are easier to identify (experimental area).
This does not, however, mean that this method should be discarded
because it is too complex. This only means that an analysis of the
impact of a legal regulation should always obey the cost/benefit
principle as the superior rule, while the form of the analysis should rely
on the costs and the practical assessment of the possibilities to carry it
out.
Considering the diversified time frames of obtaining the benefits and
paying the costs (short and long-term perspective) which is often the
fact when a single regulation is implemented and a whole legislative
process, in which the costs and benefits may be mutually interweaved,
in order to measure the overall achievement (effects) of the
implemented policy, we can try to take a more balanced approach which
addresses both time horizons. This type of methods have been
successfully used by large corporations in the recent years. Let us
consider the possibility of converting the contemporary management
and evaluation techniques used by business into the control and
evaluation of the legislative process by their measurement and
communication. This is an effect measurement technique known as the
balanced scorecard (Polish acronym ZKD). The essence of this
technique is that when we control an organisation, we need to conciliate
two aspects, current and future, of needs, and short and long-term
objectives. Moreover, controlling the activities comprises the financial
side of it which is measurable by its quality and value, and the non-
financial side which is measurable only in a qualitative way. The
surroundings of the measurement and legislation effects works in a
similar environment. Hence, we are drawing the attention of potential
regulation authors to the possibility of a deeper insight into the
assumptions and methodology of this technique, from the angle of its
adaptation into the Regulation Impact Analysis.
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