Overview

In the context of a strategy dedicated to Better Regulation in Portugal, the ‘Capacitar RIA’ (CRIA) project has as its main objective a more efficient implementation of legislative impact assessment practices, as well as a more efficient public intervention that promotes competitiveness and well-being, reducing contextual costs for people, companies, and the Public Administration itself.

Objectives

• To review the methodology and mechanisms for operationalising the network of focal points in line with the contributions of the OECD study;
• To create methodologies for the prior assessment of legislative impact for people, the Public Administration (PA) and the quantification of benefits, leading to the implementation of prior cost-benefit assessment models;
• To replace current procedures with a technological platform (SI RIA) that improves contact between the network of public organisations and between UTAIL and all those involved, as well as the impact assessment exercise itself;
• To improve the impact assessment process in its different dimensions — making it more efficient — and the policy decision support procedure, contributing to the efficiency of intervention, reducing context costs for people, companies and the PA, promoting national competitiveness, increasing well-being and improving the efficiency of the PA;
• To train the entire network responsible for the impact assessment exercise;
• To align service provision based on the international benchmarking carried out by the OECD and the European Commission, adopting an essential tool for the national Better Regulation strategy;
• To reposition the country among the international economies that have public legislative impact assessment policies with concrete success rates;
• To implement a policy decision support system that contributes to reducing the context costs for families, companies — with particular attention to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises — and the Public Administration, promoting economic competitiveness, increased well-being and better use of available public resources;
• To implement a policy decision support system that helps to reduce the costs borne by the Public Administration, contributing to more efficient public management;
• To develop statistical analysis studies relevant to the RIA exercise;
• To implement a new policy decision support procedure that allows for greater efficiency and effectiveness in the implementation of the “How much does it cost?” (“Custa Quanto?”) measure, modernising the functioning of the state, which implies:
  • To expand the evaluation spectrum to different target audiences and different models;
  • To make the process of gathering information and preparing the legislative impact assessment analysis more flexible and centralised for ministerial offices and services;
  • To optimise working methods and the flow of information between the entities involved;
  • To improve UTAIL’s technical and technological response capacity;
  • To produce management and monitoring information that ensures effective control of the activity and the necessary support, as well as comparability between decision-making options regarding improvements to be made.

Duration

2018-2023