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Smart Regulation Award
Who should enter?
This award is open to both public and private sector organisations that have been instrumental in improving the regulatory environment and creating favourable conditions for business.
Criteria
Judges will be looking for evidence of:
• Inclusion of measures to adopt smart regulation in poverty reduction and economic growth policies
• Commitment to building capacity within a government or business community to promote and implement an improved regulatory environment
• Degree to which there has been activity – internally or externally – to raise awareness of the importance of smart regulation
• Promotion of private sector views in the development of policy and a dialogue between government and business
• Examples of how programmes have been implemented and the measures of success which have been seen
• Facilitation of cross border trades.
