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On the Smartness of Smart Regulation – A Brief Comment on the Future Reform Agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lorenzo Allio
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We live at a time where Smart is better than Better, and Better was not Smart enough. This is not a dull pun. It actually reflects the status in which regulatory reform finds itself nowadays. To many observers, the switch from Better to Smart just reflects the attempt to instil renewed commitment and faith in an agenda, which in some (European) countries has maybe exhausted its thrust. The European Commission also admits candidly that the choice of the new term largely serves as a refreshing slogan. But limiting it to a branding change, with little consideration of its content, would be a mistake in appreciation. And a missed opportunity. We do need “Smart Regulation” – and not only in the Commission. Above all, we need smart regulators.

Type
Symposium on Regulatory Reform in the EU and the US
Information
European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 19 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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1 Available on the Internet at <http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_45507055_1_1_1_1_1,00.html>. See also Allio, L. and Jacobzone, S., “Regulatory Policy at the Crossroads. The Role of the OECD in Mapping an Agenda for the Future” (2011), in Alemanno, A., den Butter, F., Nijsen, A. and Torriti, J. (eds), Better Business Regulation in a Risk Society (New York: Springer, forthcoming)Google Scholar.