Gokseong-gun Certified as an Excellent Local Regulatory Innovation Institution by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety in 2021

Minister of the Interior and Safety Commendation, 100 Million Won Financial Incentive

[Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cha Jong-sun] Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Yoo Geun-gi) announced on the 10th that it received the ‘2021 Local Regulatory Innovation Excellent Institution’ certification hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, along with a ministerial commendation and a financial incentive of 100 million KRW.

This year, 10 basic local governments were newly certified, and Gokseong-gun was the only one in Jeollanam-do to achieve this honor.

The Local Regulatory Innovation Excellent Institution certification system is an evaluation system introduced by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety since 2018 to enable local governments to self-diagnose and improve the overall level of regulatory innovation and strengthen their regulatory innovation capabilities through 20 diagnostic indicators.

The diagnostic indicators consist of establishing a regulatory innovation foundation such as basic plan establishment (9 indicators), creating regulatory innovation outcomes and spreading publicity (3 indicators), and collaboration on key projects such as discovering regulatory tasks (8 indicators).

At the end of last year, the county established a comprehensive regulatory innovation plan and promoted various policies for regulatory innovation.

First, it introduced the evaluation of excellent regulatory innovation departments as a new policy to encourage all departments’ interest in discovering regulatory reforms.

It discovered tasks for comprehensive negative conversion, conducted a thorough review of registration regulations, and operated a visiting local regulatory reporting center to actively propose tasks to the Small and Medium Business Ombudsman.

Through the regulatory proof responsibility system, it checked why registered regulations were necessary, discovered regulatory improvement proposals and cases of regulatory relaxation through proactive administration, and actively worked toward selection for certification by benchmarking excellent cases.

Also, in August last year, while promoting the establishment and operation ordinance and revision of rules for the Gokseong-gun Regulatory Reform Committee, it prepared the legal basis for the regulatory proof responsibility system and created a window on the homepage so that residents could request regulatory proof from the responsible public officials.

Furthermore, when establishing or revising ordinances and rules containing administrative regulations, the Regulatory Reform Committee was convened to review whether the regulations were reasonable within the scope of laws, striving to revitalize the Regulatory Reform Committee.

A county official stated, “We are pleased that our county’s efforts for regulatory innovation have been well evaluated. We will continue to discover and improve unreasonable regulations for the happiness of residents and revitalization of the local economy to make Gokseong a better place to live.”

Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cha Jong-sun cha6960@asiae.co.kr

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