MINISTRY OF ECONOMY Guidelines for the Regulation Impact Assessment
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The Dutch manual Standard Cost Model. Measuring and reducing
administrative burdens for businesses
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identifies 17 types of reporting
obligations which create administrative cost. These are:
• Reporting/notifications,
• Applications for permits,
• Applications for recognition,
• Carrying out registration/measurements,
• Doing (periodical) tests,
• Making (periodical) reports,
• Carrying out audits,
• Applications for permits or exemptions,
• Current updating of business plans and programmes
(contingency plans included),
• Co-operation in audits/inspection/implementation,
• Marking for the benefit of third parties,
• Providing information to third parties,
• Issuing documents,
• Monitoring legislative changes,
• Placing complaints and appeals,
• Complaint handling,
• Registration in the Register.
In order to perform the above-specified obligations, one must carry out a number of
administrative activities. The SCM model identifies the following: (1) learning about
the necessity to get a specific set of information; (2) obtaining the information; 3)
assessment which information—according to the regulation—must be delivered to the
public authorities; (4) making the calculations of data to be delivered; (5) preparation
of data presentation; (6) checking the data included in the presentation; (7) data
corrections; (8) preparation of a description of the data; (9) making the payments, e.g.,
tax; (10) organisation of internal meetings; (11) organisation of external meetings; (12)
inspections by public authorities and the necessity to serve for these inspections; (13)
making corrections after detecting errors and irregularities; (14) additional training;
(15) copying and distribution of reports, etc.; (16) reporting/delivery of information.
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Administrative burden makes part of the general cost of adherence to
legal regulations. Adherence to regulations involves expenditures that
can be divided into various categories. It is important do distinguish
financial costs from adjustment costs at the stage of identification of the
reporting obligations.
Financial costs are a result of the unequivocal and direct obligation to
transfer a specific amount of money to the state. These are not related to
the state’s necessity of getting information, i.e., taxes, stamp duty,
administrative fees, fines.
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A Polish version of the manual was prepared by the Ministry of Economy
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Source: SCM Network (2004) International Standard Cost Model Manual. Measuring and reducing administrative burdens for businesses,
http://www.administrative-burdens.com/
Regulation adherence
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