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Regulatory Impact Assessment Guidance

• Read this before starting your RIA
• Compensatory Simplification: interim guidance [PDF, 168KB]

Step-by step guidance

1. Title of proposal
2. Purpose and intended effect
3. Consultation
4. Options
5. Costs and benefits
   • Sectors and groups affected
   • Analysis of costs and benefits
     • Quantification
     • Analysing the benefits
     • Analysing the costs
     • Policy and administrative costs
     • Coverage of costs and benefits
     • Costs and benefits occuring over time
     • Testing your assumptions
     • Where can I get help with identifying costs and benefits?
   • Summary of costs and benefits
   • Costs and benefits checklist - to help assess the economic, social and environmental impacts
6. Small Firms Impact Test
7. Competition assessment
8. Enforcement, sanctions and monitoring
9. Implementation and delivery plan
10. Post-implementation review
11. Summary and recommendation
12. Declaration and publication

Additional information

• Top tips - to help you with the RIA process
• RIA flowchart - the RIA in the policy making process
• RIA Checklist
• RIA Template - to help you structure your RIA
• Initial Public Sector RIA Guidance - for policies which only impact on public services
• Initial Public Sector RIA template - to help you structure your Initial Public Sector RIA
• Policy clearance
• European proposals
• Alternatives to Regulation - Better Regulation Task Force report
• Useful contacts

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