Mid-sized Ombudsman Conducts Implementation Check... 77.6% of Regulatory Improvements Completed

Jubong Park, Small and Medium Business Ombudsman (Vice Minister level).
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] The Small and Medium Business Ombudsman (vice ministerial level) announced that 77.6% of the regulatory improvement recommendations made in 2021 have been implemented.

The Ombudsman stated on the 17th that this result came from checking the implementation status of regulatory improvement tasks recommended to the government, local governments, and related organizations under the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises.

In October last year, to enhance the effectiveness of regulatory improvement recommendations, the Ombudsman assigned dedicated personnel within the Ombudsman Support Group to conduct implementation inspections and began full-scale activities. This implementation inspection was conducted over two months from November to December last year, targeting 857 tasks out of 2,103 regulatory improvement tasks that received responses from related agencies in 2020, excluding 1,246 tasks that had already been completed.

The inspection found that a total of 386 regulations had been improved, bringing the total number of completed tasks to 1,632, resulting in an implementation rate of 77.6%. There remain 194 tasks still in the promotion stage, such as legislative amendment work, so the implementation rate of regulatory improvements is expected to increase further.

The Ombudsman expects that if tasks currently under improvement, such as legislative amendments and research service reviews, are sequentially completed, the implementation rate will exceed 80%.

The Ombudsman plans to regularly check the completion status of tasks under improvement or delay and urge prompt implementation. Additionally, if regulations are not improved without justifiable reasons, the Ombudsman will pursue additional face-to-face consultations, and if implementation still does not occur, actively consider passing regulatory improvement 'recommendations' through the Ombudsman Committee meetings.

Park Ju-bong, Small and Medium Business Ombudsman, emphasized, "We will continue to inspect and verify until regulatory improvements are fully implemented so that they do not remain mere formal responses but provide practical help to small and medium enterprises."

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