Business licences - international benchmarking
Bureau of Industry Economics report
This report was released in June 1996.
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Business licences - International benchmarking (PDF 647.3 KB)Contents
- Preliminaries
- Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Contents, Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Benchmarking the regulatory framework
- 1.2 The impetus for licensing reform
- 1.3 Outline of this report
- 2 Method and definitions
- 2.1 Method
- 2.2 Definitions
- 2.3 Benchmarking methods
- 2.4 Summary
- 3 The impact of business licensing
- 3.1 The extent of licensing in Australia
- 3.2 The extent of licensing internationally
- 3.3 Business attitudes and compliance costs
- 3.4 Summary
- 4 Developing benchmarks for licensing
- 4.1 Licence approval
- 4.2 Licence standards
- 4.3 Licence enforcement
- 4.4 Summary
- 5 Licence approval: information and integration
- 5.1 Information about licensing
- 5.2 Master licensing systems
- 5.3 Integrated approval systems
- 5.4 Summary
- 6 Licence approval: consultation
- 6.1 Pre-application consultation
- 6.2 Consulting affected parties
- 6.3 Resolving disputes
- 6.4 Summary
- 7 Licence approval: certainty and efficiency
- 7.1 Certainty about approval duration
- 7.2 Contestability, cost recovery and efficiency
- 7.3 Evidence on approval times and fees
- 7.3 Summary
- 8 Licence standards: flexibility
- 8.1 Outcomes instead of processes
- 8.2 Management systems and proportionality
- 8.3 Summary
- 9 Licence standards: efficiency
- 9.1 Allocating licensing quotas
- 9.2 Coordinating licensing standards
- 9.3 Forcing technology
- 9.4 Summary
- 10 Licence enforcement
- 10.1 Private compliance activity
- 10.2 Hierarchy of public enforcement methods
- 10.3 Publication of enforcement policies
- 10.4 Targeted enforcement
- 10.5 Compliance incentives
- 10.6 Summary
- 11 Australia's scorecard
- 11.1 Numbers of licences and applications
- 11.2 Design of licensing
- 11.3 Overall assessment
- Appendix A International comparisons of licences
- Appendix B Survey of businesses
- Appendix C International comparisons of standards
- Glossary
- References
