Gyeonggi-do Certified as an Excellent Local Regulatory Innovation Institution... Receives 100 Million Won in Special Grants

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province has been certified as an excellent institution for local regulatory innovation.

On the 21st, Gyeonggi Province announced that it ranked first nationwide in the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's '2022 Local Regulatory Innovation Certification' evaluation and obtained the excellent institution certification.

The Local Regulatory Innovation Excellent Institution Certification System was introduced in 2018 as a system in which local governments evaluate their own regulatory innovation capabilities through diagnostic indicators developed by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

This year, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety evaluated 243 local governments nationwide, including 17 metropolitan local governments, in three areas: establishment of regulatory innovation systems such as comprehensive plan formulation, strengthening the regulatory innovation process including discovering and proposing regulations to central government ministries, and creating and spreading regulatory innovation achievements such as representative cases of regulatory improvement.

Gyeonggi Province recorded achievements such as ▲ holding the Regulatory Reform Committee (5 times), implementing the Regulatory Proof Responsibility System (13 cases), and operating the Visiting Local Regulation Reporting Center (8 times) in the regulatory innovation system establishment and local regulatory innovation fields ▲ holding one on-site discussion, preparing two Regulatory Impact Analyses, discovering and proposing 18 regulations to central government ministries, and utilizing four resident participation groups in the regulatory innovation process strengthening field ▲ achieving over 80% timely maintenance rate of autonomous ordinances and converting eight cases to a negative regulation system in the regulatory innovation achievement creation and spread field, ranking first among metropolitan local governments.

With this excellent institution certification, the province will receive a special grant of 100 million KRW. The certification is valid for three years from November 1 to October 30, 2025.

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