Armenian government to enforce electronic guillotine

YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/.  Chaired by Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, the Economic Legislation Reform Council met today in the Office of Government. Apart from council members, the meeting was attended by OSCE, UNDP, U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank and Austrian Development Agency representatives.

The meeting approved the transition program and the legal act inventory checklist as developed by the National Center for Streamlined Legislation based on the recommendations made at the latest council meeting by Scott Jacobs, author of Regulatory Guillotine fast reform tool and chief consultant for the Armenia program. The meeting also looked at the legal act revision checklist due to be submitted to the Council for approval following discussions with the Ministry of Justice.

The checklists are meant to promote involvement of public agency and business sector representatives in the revision of legal acts and the design of legal act inventories, after which the National Center will present a reform package based on all the stakeholders’ recommendations.

Also, there will be introduced the Electronic Guillotine, a comprehensive database of legislation and business processes, which in addition to providing a consolidated electronic database will promote transparency in the relations between the State, on the one hand, and the citizens and businesses, on the other hand.

In September 2011 president Sargsyan decreed to create the Council to reform the legal acts regulating the sphere of economy, and to coordinate activities to enhance the effectiveness of state regulation of economic activity. The Council will seek to eliminate provisions that impede the development of the market economy environment, to simplify and improve the quality of services provided to citizens by the state, improve legislation in this area, as well as develop proposals to reduce inappropriate and economically inefficient arrangements and expenses. ---0---