Suwon Establishes '2021 Regulatory Reform Implementation Plan'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] Suwon City is establishing and promoting the '2021 Regulatory Reform Implementation Plan' with the goal of 'innovation-driven regulatory reform that citizens can clearly feel.'

The regulatory reform implementation plan consists of 15 projects across 4 sectors: ▲demand and field-centered regulatory discovery ▲enhanced regulatory reform capacity ▲regulatory reform infrastructure establishment ▲regulatory reform sharing and expansion.

To discover regulations from a demand and field-centered perspective, Suwon City plans to promote the enactment and revision of laws and regulations necessary for regional new deals, and to discover and resolve deregulation issues. Additionally, the city plans to operate a 'visiting regulatory reform reporting center' to intensively discover unreasonable regulations that become obstacles to business and self-employed operations.

The city plans to strengthen public officials' regulatory reform capacity by discovering excellent regulatory reform cases and providing incentives to outstanding civil servants.

The city also plans to continuously manage regulations within local ordinances to establish regulatory reform infrastructure, and gather opinions from citizens and businesses to identify regulations that citizens want reformed.

Last year, Suwon City conducted demand and field-centered regulatory discovery activities and achieved results. By operating the 'visiting regulatory reform reporting center,' the city provided consultation to 15 businesses and other organizations.

The 'visiting regulatory reform reporting center' is where Suwon City's regulatory reform team officials visit businesses and organizations within the city, listen to on-site challenges, and find solutions. If there are unnecessary regulations, the city actively works to improve them.

The city also made recommendations to central government ministries regarding regulatory reform, which played a major role in law revisions including 'enabling recruitment of municipal-level epidemiological investigators,' 'extending venture company verification validity periods,' 'relaxing drone-related direct production confirmation standards,' and 'relaxing corporate research institute establishment requirements.'

The city held a regulatory reform idea contest to discover challenges faced by citizens and businesses due to unreasonable regulations and made recommendations to central government ministries for improvements.

Recognizing these achievements, the city received re-certification as an 'excellent local regulatory innovation institution' from the Ministry of Interior and Safety in December last year (first certified in December 2018).

The city is promoting regulatory reform programs including ▲visiting regulatory reform reporting center ▲regulatory reform idea contest ▲regulatory reform education for civil servants ▲regulatory reform committee meetings ▲creating regulatory reform excellence case news cards ▲winning an award (excellence) in Gyeonggi Province cities and counties regulatory rationalization contest ▲civil servants' active governance practice pledge for regulatory reform ▲evaluation of regulatory innovation excellence departments, and has received high evaluations across the areas of regulatory innovation promotion strategy, infrastructure, outcomes, and dissemination.

Suwon Mayor Yeum Tae-young said, "Regulatory innovation begins with listening to challenges in the field and taking active governance to find solutions. Rather than following convention, we will take an active approach to regulatory reform, discover unreasonable laws and local regulations, and work to improve them."