Safety regulations maintained, innovation regulations eased... Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport launches regulatory innovation in land and transport sectors

▲ 2020 Land, Infrastructure and Transport Regulatory Innovation Promotion Direction (Provided by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Chun-hee] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is accelerating regulatory innovation to boost economic vitality through the activation of various new industries such as future mobility, drones, autonomous vehicles, and the real estate industry.

On the 23rd, the Ministry announced the '2020 Land, Infrastructure and Transport Regulatory Innovation Promotion Plan' containing these details. This plan was established to actively identify and improve unreasonable regulations that cause inconvenience to citizens' lives and to enhance economic vitality through systematic regulatory innovation.

The promotion plan focuses on establishing basic principles for regulatory innovation, selecting 7+7 regulatory innovation tasks, and forming and operating the 'Land, Infrastructure and Transport Regulatory Innovation Overall TF' chaired by the First Vice Minister to promote regulatory innovation.

The established basic principles are ▲discerning regulatory innovation ▲regulatory innovation that citizens can feel the improvement effects ▲regulatory innovation together with the public. Discerning regulatory innovation means boldly easing regulations for economic vitality and innovation, while maintaining regulations necessary to realize inclusion and fairness such as safety. However, even these regulations will be rationally improved if necessary.

Regulatory innovation that citizens can feel the improvement effects involves proactively and swiftly revising laws through the government's regulatory proof responsibility system and the transition to comprehensive negative regulation. Additionally, in new industry sectors, the plan envisions actively utilizing regulatory sandboxes to produce results. Regulatory innovation together with the public aims to diversify regulatory discovery routes, strengthen communication with citizens, and provide customized solutions that actively seek alternatives for proposed contents.

As the 7+7 regulatory innovation tasks, seven 'whole-of-government innovation tasks' requiring intergovernmental cooperation were selected, centered on new industries: future mobility, drones, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, hydrogen economy, data economy, and industrial complexes. Furthermore, the Ministry selected seven 'independent innovation tasks' that it will pursue alone, focusing on areas with many improvement requests from citizens and companies: location, architecture, construction, daily transportation, housing welfare, real estate industry, and logistics.

For the whole-of-government tasks, the Ministry plans to prepare regulatory innovation measures linked with government-wide initiatives such as the 'Top 10 Regulatory Improvement TF' and establish a basic plan for new industry regulatory revision under the 'Administrative Regulation Basic Act' for some tasks. For the Ministry's independent innovation tasks, it will revise laws subject to government proof responsibility and review past proposals to prepare fundamental institutional improvement measures.

Along with this, to ensure systematic regulatory innovation, the Ministry will form and operate the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Regulatory Innovation Overall TF chaired by the First Vice Minister. Additionally, public-private joint TFs involving government, public, and private institutions will be operated for each of the 7+7 tasks.

Yoon Jong-su, the Ministry's Regulatory Reform Legal Officer, said, “Regulatory innovation is essential at this time to recover economic dynamism and create jobs, which have been stagnated due to the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to resolve citizens' inconveniences, and to spread an inclusive society. We will create results that citizens can feel through systematic and proactive regulatory innovation.”

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