Regulatory Impact Assessment
Regulatory impact assessment will be carried out as a result of the “gap plugging” studies to be prepared within the scope of the ATLAS Project for each mode of transportation. For that matter, the influences of the regulations, which will also benefit our country, on stakeholders, the environment and the economy will be evaluated.
Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), a leading element of good regulation, is the most comprehensive and successful governance tool, internationally accepted, aiming to systematically examine the potential benefits and costs, positive and negative effects of existing and new legislation.
Public institutions and organizations enact legislation that affects millions of people and has huge economic consequences. Most of the time, the inadequacy, inefficacy, or inappropriateness of the rules set in this implementation, in short, their inadequacy in solving problems, is understood over time and amendments are made, thereafter. The Regulatory Impact Assessment method was developed as a policy-making tool consisting of certain stages in order to break this vicious circle and increase the quality of legislation, and it has been widely used in OECD and EU countries since the 1990s.
RIA is not a document that needs to be written after the draft texts are prepared, it is a roadmap to be followed in the legislative preparation process. As such, RIA is a dynamic decision-making tool that can also be applied to existing regulations.
In response to a problem that is thought to exist, the RIA reveals whether there is a need to produce legal norms and, if so, what options can be produced in order to solve the problem. It guides the decision maker by evaluating these options in terms of their social, economic and environmental impacts. By this means, damages that cannot be compensated later are prevented, and public officials are directed to produce options and to measure and evaluate the possible effects of the legislation through different analytical tools.
As a natural extension of the deliberative and participatory democracy understanding, the social segments (stakeholders) that will be affected by this policy should be articulated to the public policy-making process. With its interactive, active, and systematic consultation process, RIA will respond to this need.
