TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Veit, Sylvia
T1  - The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation
T2  - Public Administration in Germany
N2  - Over the last decades, Better Regulation has become a major reform topic at the federal and—in some cases—also at the Länder level. Although the debate about improving regulatory quality and reducing unnecessary burdens created by bureaucracy and red tape date back to the 1960s and 1970s, the introduction by law in 2006 of a new independent institutionalised body for regulatory control at the federal level of government has brought a new quality to the discourse and practice of Better Regulation in Germany. This chapter introduces the basic features of the legislative process at the federal level in Germany, addresses the issue of Better Regulation and outlines the role of the National Regulatory Control Council (Nationaler Normenkontrollrat—NKR) as a ‘watchdog’ for compliance costs, red tape and regulatory impacts.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50129
SN  - 978-3-030-53696-1
SN  - 978-3-030-53697-8
SP  - 357
EP  - 373
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  -