Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Quantity and Quality
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The research report Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Quantity and Quality was released on 12 December 2008.
See also
- Cost of Business Registrations research report - also released on 12 December 2008
- More about Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 190 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents and Abbreviations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 98 Kb)
- 1 Background (PDF - 120 Kb)
1.1 Origins of this study
1.2 Australia's regulatory reforms
1.3 Scope of and approach to the study
1.4 Conduct of the study - 2 Benchmarking quantity and quality of business regulation (PDF - 118 Kb)
2.1 What is benchmarking?
2.2 Benchmarking regulation in Australia
2.3 The quantity and quality indicators - 3 Indicators of the quantity of regulation (PDF - 73 Kb)
3.1 Total stock of regulation
3.2 Flow of regulation - 4 Indicators of the quality of regulation: design and review (PDF - 131 Kb)
4.1 Consultation
4.2 Analysis of proposals
4.3 Gatekeeping
4.4 Plain English drafting
4.5 Ex-post review of regulation - 5 Indicators of regulator structure and activity (PDF - 89 Kb)
5.1 Number of business regulators
5.2 Regulator characteristics
5.3 Regulator activity - 6 Indicators of the quality of regulatory administration (PDF - 150 Kb)
6.1 Accessing information and lodging forms online
6.2 Fees and charges
6.3 Timeliness of response
6.4 Appeal mechanisms
6.5 Mutual recognition
6.6 Enforcement of regulation - 7 Local government regulation (PDF - 100 Kb)
7.1 Institutional basis for regulatory powers
7.2 Scope and incidence of business regulation
7.3 The Commission's approach
7.4 Quantity indicators
7.5 Process quality indicators - 8 Lessons for future quantity and quality benchmarking (PDF - 86 Kb)
8.1 Reliability of the indicators
8.2 Lessons for future quality and quantity benchmarking exercises - 9 Comments from jurisdictions (PDF - 90 Kb)
- Appendix A Conduct of the benchmarking study (PDF - 95 Kb)
- Appendix B Study methodology (PDF - 111 Kb)
- Appendix C New Zealand — Regulatory System Survey (PDF - 81 Kb)
- References (PDF - 55 Kb)
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