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EALL, 16 July 2010
This coming Autumn, EALL will offer professionals on law and legislation with 3 (more) modules on regulatory issues: 'Consultation', 'Managing Stock of Legislation' and 'Smart Compliance'. On-line application will be open from 23 August 2010
All modules will deal for 3 days with state of the art developments in the field, mixing theory with case-based materials and assignments, demanding a high degree of interactivity of the participants.
The course fee is set at € 3000,- (€ 2750,- , application before 15 September 2010), including lodging learning materials and social programme.
Module 'Consultation' (15-17 November 2010)
Consultations are procedures in which the government or the law maker seeks input from external experts, stakeholders or enforcing bodies when preparing a policy or legislative act. They have become an important component of contemporary regulatory management systems. In clusters 'Basics of Consultation in a Regulatory and a Political model', 'Methods, Techniques and Conditions for Appropriate Consultation and Institutional aspects' and 'Review of the Best Practices'. After the 3 day course, it is expected that these initial guidelines and pieces of advice will provide participants with deeper meaning and an enhanced potentiality for implementation in their domestic administrative and a political context.
Detailed programme to be announced.
Course director: Prof. Patricia Popelier (University Antwerp)
Expert staff: Dr. Koen van Aeken (Tilburg University)
Module 'Managing Stock of Legislation' (23-25 November 2010)
Due to widespread popular perceptions of increasing bureaucracy, often believed to be directly related, if not caused by the increased volume of legislation, the idea of cutting red tape by means of reducing the volume of legislation has become a very popular electoral promise and policy concept. The sheer volume of legislation has become a political item in itself. Many Western governments have passed legislation and made procedural changes which claim to reduce red tape or reduce administrative burdens in the last decade. OECD-reports, best practices and formal and informal benchmarks seem to have fueled this world wide trend. Regulatory reform is first among the strategies used in order to achieve a reduction of administrative burdens. A recurrent theme in these regulatory reform programmes is a focus on the volume of legislation. Until recently most countries did not keep count of the total volume of legislation and the total amount of legislation was unknown. Nowadays surveys into the exact total stock of legislation are becoming increasingly popular.
This module provides participants insight on how consolidation and codification are being used. Different methods and approaches to increase the overall accessibility of legislation will be central in this course, by way of electronic promulgation, wiki-based applications and electronic legislative calendars.
Detailed programme to be announced.
Course director: Prof. Wim Voermans (EALL, Leyden University)
Expert staff: Edward Donelan (OECD/SIGMA), others to be confirmed
Module 'Smart Compliance' (30 November-2 December 2010)
Compliance is a vital element of the legislative cycle, and decisive for the success or failure of legislation. However, practice shows that compliance is ill conceived at least, or overlooked at most. What does it take to maximize smooth compliance by the addressees? Smart compliance critically reviews both the flow and the stock of legislation. It poses questions of the effectiveness of existing instruments. Is there room for improvement, or do regulatory challenges ahead force lawmakers and implementing agencies to design new instruments? Innovation is at the heart of this module. The current state of regulatory reform policy is assessed, its future outline discussed. Highly recommended for decision makers in the field of Better Regulation policy.
Detailed programme to be announced.
Course director: Jeroen Nijland (Dutch Regulatory Reform Group, The Hague)
Expert staff: to be confirmed
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