Developments in Environmental Regulation by Jon Foreman

Author:Jon Foreman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

regulators can access information from other sources without routinely collecting it;

the information was only needed rarely and it could be collected on demand.

Method to Overcome Obstacles to Reform

The first inherent reform obstacle was that the specialists who had developed the arrangements weren’t necessarily best placed to reform them. At the same time, because the nature of environmental regulation is sometimes highly technical, complete outsiders wouldn’t have the depth of knowledge to credibly challenge the status quo. Furthermore, the nature of government departments and agencies is such that the staff required to advise and agree reform measures are often so spread (e.g. from policy, legal, technical advice, IT and regulatory service teams) that it is often hard to bring them together and resolve all their practical concerns in any realistically efficient or proportionate way. HM Treasury had demonstrated this problem shortly before in running an exercise looking to reduce information obligations across the government and had found no opportunities for environmental regulation.

Defra and independent environmental consultants from WSP, therefore, developed a method to overcome these obstacles and incentivise reform as follows:WSP worked with technical specialists to develop initial proposals in line with the principles.

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