FEASIBILITY STUDYSTUDY: INTRODUCING “ONE-IN-ONE-OUT” IN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Final Report for the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Presented by the Centre for European Policy Studies, 5 December 2019

Renda, Andrea. (2019) FEASIBILITY STUDYSTUDY: INTRODUCING “ONE-IN-ONE-OUT” IN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Final Report for the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Presented by the Centre for European Policy Studies, 5 December 2019. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

The need to consolidate and streamline the stock of legislation and reduce the unnecessary costs associated with legal rules has been increasingly felt by regulated stakeholders and governments in many developed and emerging economies. In many OECD countries, including many EU Member States and Canada, Korea, Mexico, the United States, this has led governments of various political orientations to introduce forms of regulatory budgeting, in which administrations are asked to identify, whenever new provisions introduce regulatory costs, existing provisions that could be repealed or revised, thereby offsetting the cost increase. In some countries these rules have implied a one-to-one offset, whereas in other countries the provisions imposed also a reduction, as in the case of UK’s one-in-two-out and one-in-three-out rules, and the US one-in-two-out rule. This is why we generically refer to these rules as “One-In-X-Out”, or OIXO. Moreover, many countries have also experimented with a complementary strategy, which implies the setting of ad hoc burden reduction targets, either for all legislation or for specific sectors. In fact, OIXO-rules are just a specific from of burden reduction targets – with the level of the target “Out” being linked to the flow of new regulations “In”.

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