1、 Regulatory Reform Review in China First Working Groups Meeting Agenda Diao Yu Tai Hotel 钓鱼 台大酒店 Beijing, China, 12 September 2007 NDRC National Development and Reform Commission Regulatory Reform Review in China First Working Groups Meeting Beijing, China, 12 September 2007 2 9.00 9.30 Registration
2、 9.30 10.00 Opening Session Regulatory Reform Review in China Moderator: Mr. Shanchang Xu, Deputy Director General, Economic System Reform Department, NDRC Opening remarks Mr. Jingyuan KONG, Director General, Economic System Reform Department, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Mr. Ra
3、ed Safadi, Head of the Trade and Development Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 10.00 11.30 Session 1 Regulatory Governance: Elements of High-Quality Regulatory Policy Chair: Mr. Shanchang Xu, Deputy Director General, Economic S
4、ystem Reform Department, NDRC Governments use regulation to determine economic, public and social behaviour. Regulatory policy is prominent in public governance due to its involvement in all aspects of public policy. Historically, each regulatory system has been set up differently to face similar pr
5、oblems and obstacles. Some of the countries that undertook a transition from centrally planned to market led economies laid part of their success in solid regulatory reforms. Sound regulation might ensure orderly application of economic changes, soften perverse effects of market failures, promote a
6、competitive environment and raise domestic and foreign trust in the economy and the government. There are certain commonalities in the pillar elements but adaptability and innovation have been an essential part in the development of this discipline in all OECD countries. This session will be an oppo
7、rtunity to explore the common elements and areas of good practice. How to ensure regulatory compliance in an efficient way is one of the main regulatory goals searched everywhere. Administrative burdens are one of the elements that prevent regulation users from complying with regulation easily. Sour
8、ces of administrative burdens are diverse: complicated and expensive administrative obligations, uncontrolled flow of regulation feeding the system, unorganised stock of regulation, opaque regulatory mechanisms, etc. OECD countries have been working for decades aiming at the reduction of regulatory
9、burdens; administrative simplification is one of the most advanced disciplines in regulatory policy. This regulatory tool uses other policy tools in the production and improvement of regulation: Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) helps understanding better the economic effects of regulation; Public Co
10、nsultation provides concrete mechanisms to participate in the regulatory processes, creating more realistic rules which are better supported and understood by their users; alternatives to traditional command and control regulation reduces the cost of regulation and help bringing innovative solutions
11、. During this session these elements will be defined and good practices will be shared. Speakers Dr. Shin Kim, Director, Regulatory Research Center, Institute of Public Administration, Korea. Regulatory Reform Review in China First Working Groups Meeting Beijing, China, 12 September 2007 3 Mr. Danie
12、l Trnka, Director, Department for Regulatory Reform and Public Administration Quality, Ministry of Interior, Czech Republic. Documentation OECD Regulatory Reform: Experiences from OECD countries. OECD Policy Brief: Korea: Progress in Implementing Regulatory Reform. 2007. 韩国规制改革 经济合作与发展组织考察报告 . 2007
13、(Korea: progress in implementing regulatory reform. OECD Regulatory Reform Reviews) 11.30 11.45 Coffee Break 11.45 12.45 Session 2 Competition and regulation: complementary principles in enterprise economies Chair: Mr. Shanchang Xu, Deputy Director General, Economic System Reform Department, NDRC Re
14、gulatory policies that increase, rather than suppress, the role of competitive forces can encourage investment, improve productivity and increase employment. Systematic reforms to promote market competition create resilient, adaptable economies that grow faster and create more, better jobs. Regulati
15、on and competition could be related in several ways. Regulation might be inconsistent with competition policy. Or, regulation might try to replace or duplicate competition policy. Finally, regulation might use competition-policy methods to accomplish its goals. The session will explain why competiti
16、on occupies a central place in the OECDs principles of regulatory quality and performance, in part through OECD research that links competitive regulatory policies with better productivity and economic performance; and how competition issues are treated in common regulatory settings, such as restruc
17、turing public services and protecting consumers. Speaker Mr. Michael Wise, Head of Country Studies, Competition Division, OECD Documentation OECD Competition Assessment Toolkit. Version 1.0. 12.45 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 15.45 Session 3 Market Openness and Regulatory Reform: Understanding the Links
18、to Enhanced Economic Performance Chair: Mr. Raed Safadi, Head of the Trade and Development Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD Regulatory Reform Review in China First Working Groups Meeting Beijing, China, 12 September 2007 4 With the expansion of economic globalisation and the fall of
19、 traditional barriers to trade, the complementarities of market openness and regulatory reform are increasingly important. Trade and investment liberalisation can be an important factor in successful regulatory reform, while regulatory reform can play a strong role in ensuring liberalised conditions
20、 for trade and investment bring the expected benefits in economic performance. When designed and implemented properly, regulatory reform creates a well regulated domestic environment that improves efficiency of the economy and also increases the flow of international trade and investment. Good regul
21、atory quality encourages productivity, investment and innovation, creates new jobs, and boosts growth and competitiveness. The prospect of these domestic benefits is the basic and indispensable driving force for regulatory reform. This session will examine three examples of linking regulatory reform
22、 to enhanced economic performance. The first is a discussion of domestic transparency in Australias economic and trade reforms. The second is the European Unions experience on how trade and investment friendly regulations enhance economic performance. The third discusses Swedens country experience w
23、ith regulatory reform and market openness. Speakers Mr. Patrick A. Jomini, Assistant Commissioner, Economic and Labour Market Research Branch, Australia Productivity Commission, Australia. Mr. Miguel Ceballos-Baron, Head of the Trade Section, European Commission Delegation in China, EU. Mr. Per-Arne
24、 Hjelmborn, Minister - Economic Affairs, Embassy of Sweden in China, Sweden. Mr. Hyung-Jong Lee, Deputy Director, Economic Organizations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Korea. Documentation Structural Reform Australian-Style: Lessons for Others? Domestic transparency in Australias e
25、conomic and trade reforms: the role of “the Commission” Regulatory Reform in Sweden: Enhancing Market Openness through Regulatory Reform, OECD 2007. Korea Monitoring Exercise: Market Openness through Regulatory Reform, OECD 2007. 15.45 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 17.30 Session 4 OECD Experience and Evi
26、dence in Public Infrastructure Chair: Mr. Nikolai Malyshev, Principal Administrator, Regulatory Policy Division, OECD The longer-term future performance of OECD economies, and indeed of the global economy, will depend to an important extent on the availability of adequate infrastructures to sustain
27、growth and social development. This is a huge challenge for governments and businesses around the globe. OECD countries too will be required to invest heavily to maintain, upgrade or replace existing (and often Regulatory Reform Review in China First Working Groups Meeting Beijing, China, 12 Septemb
28、er 2007 5 ageing) infrastructures, and to preserve their international competitiveness. In particular for OECD countries, infrastructure investment will be challenged by a range of fundamental long-term trends. These include growing pressures on public finances as a result of population ageing, the
29、demands of expanding international trade, the consequences of climate change, and rising expectations with respect to the quality of the environment. Concerns around reliability and security are also likely to loom larger in future. The implications of these trends for the ways that infrastructures
30、are built and operated today are likely to be far-reaching. For example, more innovative approaches to private sector finance will be needed, including diverse forms of public/private partnerships and greater recourse to pension funds and other large institutional investors. Moreover, the role of pr
31、icing is set to become increasingly critical in all these infrastructure sectors, be it to combat congestion, better manage demand, or raise the required funding for investments. There is also likely to be greater demand for workable frameworks for strategic decision-making on infrastructure, which
32、connect effective long-term planning with reliable, long-term sources of investment. And more widespread, intelligent deployment of new technologies will be called for, which make more effective and efficient use of existing infrastructure systems. Finally, governments will have to step up internati
33、onal co-operation to improve the efficiency, reliability and security of flows of goods, services and information across trans-border infrastructures. If infrastructures are to continue to provide the underpinnings of sound and sustainable economic performance, then their planning, development and f
34、inancing need to be seen and addressed in a long-term policy perspective. Speakers Dr. Graeme Hodge, Director of the Centre for Regulatory Studies, Monash University, Australia Documentation Infrastructure to 2030: Telecom, Land Transport, Water and Electricity. OECD, 2006. Regulatory Frameworks for Urban Services Professor Graeme Hodge, June 2007. 17.30 18.00 Closing Session Working Groups next steps
