Gwangju City Promotes Improvements Following Post-Legislative Evaluation of Ordinances

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 7th that, as a result of evaluating 162 ordinances through this year's post-legislation evaluation, 66 were found to require improvement.

The post-legislation evaluation of ordinances is a system implemented every two years since 2014 to analyze and evaluate whether the legislative purposes and goals of ordinances are being realized, and to improve them to enhance effectiveness.

This year's evaluation targeted 162 ordinances that have been in effect for more than two years, excluding those delegated by law or simple technical ordinances, out of a total of 666 ordinances. The evaluation was conducted by an external professional agency on 11 evaluation items including the realization of legislative purposes.

Based on the evaluation results containing ordinance maintenance and improvement plans, the Legislative Evaluation Committee, composed of legal experts, finalized the legislative evaluation result notification.

The legislative evaluation results were classified into four types: abolition if there is no need to maintain, revision if partial maintenance is required, enforcement of regulations such as failure to establish statutory plans, and gender equality of committee members if there is gender imbalance among committee members.

First, eight ordinances including the ‘Wind and Flood Disaster Insurance Premium Support Ordinance,’ which can be implemented under higher laws or whose provisions have practical limitations in effectiveness, were evaluated as subjects for abolition.

Thirty-six ordinances, including the ‘Ordinance on Revitalization of Food Donations,’ which require partial amendments due to conflicts or inconsistencies with higher laws or contradictions among individual provisions, were evaluated as needing revision.

Thirteen ordinances, such as the ‘Basic Ordinance on Citizen Participation,’ require enforcement of regulations such as failure to establish statutory plans or failure to form committees as stipulated in the ordinances.

Nine ordinances were found to have appointed committee members of a specific gender exceeding six-tenths, indicating the need for appropriate gender balance.

The finalized post-legislation evaluation report will be notified to the relevant departments to implement improvement measures such as ordinance maintenance and legal compliance.

In particular, Gwangju City focused on consistency with higher laws and ordinance utilization for a more thorough evaluation this year, changing the previous self-evaluation method to promote evaluation through close collaboration between an external professional agency and the relevant departments.

Chae Kyung-gi, the city’s legal affairs officer, said, “The ordinance evaluation aims to secure effectiveness in the post-management of the continuously increasing ordinances,” and added, “We will continue to manage the progress of ordinance improvement measures by the relevant departments.”

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