MINISTRY OF ECONOMY Guidelines for the Regulation Impact Assessment
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Tip: Preliminary consultation may focus on the perception of a given problem
among various groups of interested parties. The next stage may consist in getting
opinions on the scope of the possible options. The last stage may focus on obtaining
opinions about the preferred option.
If consultation is split into stages, we will have to clearly define the
objective of each stage. We should avoid consulting one issue twice or
consulting the results of previous consultation.
Tips:
Do not plan consultation for days off and holiday times.
Obtaining too much information from external sources may increase negligence
among the respondents (consultation fatigue)
Consultation should cover all the public partners who are really affected by the
issue. If this is impossible, we should not confine ourselves to those public partners
who are always available.
A consulted document should be clear, brief, and broadly available. If this is
impossible, consider abstracts or summaries structured as general bullet points.
The selection of a method for handling consultation defined as public
opinion study depends on consultation participants, their number, and
the available time and resources.
The public opinion polling techniques that can be used to assess
regulation impact should comprise (in the order of importance,
comprehensiveness, and cost):
• focus groups
• panel discussions
• partly structured interviews
• questionnaire surveys
• notes and comments.
The application of the above-mentioned qualitative opinion polling
techniques in assessing the regulation impact allows getting information
for the evaluation and for an in-depth analysis of needs of the studied
public group, identification and definition of the preliminary terms of
the regulation, and identification and quantification of the costs and
benefits accompanying the potential regulation.
Carefully designed questionnaires or a well organised work of expert
teams are able to provide more precise and easy-to-use data than large-
scale general consultation. But the latter are more efficient in informing
all the parties involved about the planned regulations.
A precise identification of consultation participants (how many parties
are really interested in the given issue) and definition of what is
expected of the consultation participants are very important for the
consultation outcome.
Consultation
handling
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