Yeonggwang-gun Selected as ‘Best County’ for Two Consecutive Years in Regulatory Innovation Evaluation

[Yeonggwang=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seong-jeong] Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Kim Jun-seong) announced on the 11th that it was selected as the 'Best County' for two consecutive years in the '2020 Regulatory Innovation Evaluation' hosted by Jeollanam-do.

The excellent regulatory innovation city and county evaluation comprehensively assesses 15 sub-indicators under 5 major indicators for 22 cities and counties in the province, including ▲performance of proposals to central government ministries ▲number of cases selected for resolving regulatory difficulties through proactive administration ▲performance of excellent cases of regional investment through autonomous regulatory relaxation ▲proposals and improvements of local regulatory difficulties to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups ▲performance of implementing the regulatory responsibility system.

The county improved 87 unreasonable local ordinances to change the lives of residents and achieve regulatory innovation needed by companies by improving outdated regulations and practices. In addition, by introducing the resident regulatory responsibility system, 40 registered regulations were revised, and 151 regulatory innovation tasks were discovered, of which 29 were selected by central government ministries.

Also, as a policy to induce participation of public officials and residents in regulatory innovation, the county operated the visiting local regulatory reporting center 10 times, held a regulatory innovation idea contest, awarded excellent departments and meritorious public officials in regulatory innovation, and conducted a regulatory innovation resident satisfaction survey, striving to achieve changes together with residents, companies, and public officials.

Governor Kim Jun-seong said, “We will listen to the inconveniences of each resident, actively discover hidden regulations, and do our best to achieve regulatory innovation that residents and companies can feel.”

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