DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/acb3e45b/better_regulation) has announced the addition of OECD Publishing's new report "Better Regulation in Europe: Italy 2012" to their offering.
Economic Context and Drivers of Better Regulation
The economic challenges faced by Italy are significant and have become even more important in the recent context of political turmoil and economic recession. Over the past decade, Italy's economic growth rate has remained below the European average. Labour productivity is falling relative to other large European economies. Export performance has been mixed. FDI has remained lower than in other countries of similar size. Italy also has a high proportion of employment in small firms, often family firms, which represent about 4.5 million firms, and raise specific challenges.
Regulatory reform has a crucial role to play to improve the competitiveness of the national economy. In particular, regulatory simplification, cost-cutting, and improvements in regulatory quality have concrete and direct effects across the whole of the economy.
Aware of the challenges, Italy has made important efforts to give its regulatory policies a new impetus. In particular, in recent years, Italy has accelerated the measurement and reduction of burdens (procedures, certificates, information obligations) harming competitiveness.
This review of regulation in Italy maps and analyses the core issues which together make up effective regulatory management, laying down a framework of what should be driving regulatory policy and reform in the future.
Key Topics Covered:
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Country Profile - Italy
- Reducing administrative burdens to boost business activity
- Executive summary
- Introduction: Conduct of the Review
- Chapter 1. Strategy and Policies for Better Regulation
- Chapter 2. Institutional Capacities for Better Regulation
- Chapter 3. Transparency through Consultation and Communication
- Chapter 4. The Development of New Regulations
- Chapter 5. The Management and Rationalisation of Existing Regulations
- Chapter 6. The Interface between Member States and the European Union
- Chapter 7. The Interface between Subnational and National Levels of Government
- Bibliography
- Annex A. State and Regional Legislative Power in Italy
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Source: OECD Publishing