Daegu City Certified as an 'Outstanding Local Regulatory Innovation Institution' ... "Removing All Regulatory Obstacles for Businesses"

Daegu City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] Daegu City has demonstrated its excellence as a local government in regulatory innovation.

On the 24th, Daegu City announced that it had been certified as an ‘Excellent Local Government in Regulatory Innovation 2022’ by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety for its active efforts in discovering and innovating regulations.

The ‘Excellent Local Government in Regulatory Innovation Certification System’ is a system in which the Ministry of the Interior and Safety evaluates the regulatory innovation capabilities of 243 local governments nationwide every year based on 15 diagnostic indicators across three categories: establishing a regulatory innovation system, discovering and proposing regulations to central government ministries, and representative cases of regulatory improvement. The certification period for this award is three years, from November 1, 2022, to October 31, 2025.

Daegu City has been steadily implementing its regulatory innovation plans, addressing regulations on its own, and carefully examining the difficulties and regulations faced by companies on the ground. For unresolved challenging issues, efforts to solve them continued with President Yoon Suk-yeol visiting the regulatory sites last August.

In this year’s evaluation, Daegu resolved long-standing regulations affecting local city gas suppliers. According to current regulations, even if gas supply facilities are installed on sites or roads designated as urban or county planning facilities within the Greenbelt, the approval process for all urban or county planning facilities along the entire route must be repeated, resulting in additional time and costs.

After learning of this in February, Daegu City quickly took action by holding a joint meeting with central government ministries to resolve the regulation. As a result, a legislative notice for the revision of the ‘Enforcement Decree of the Development Restriction Zone Act’ is expected by the end of this month. This revision will allow the installation of gas facilities within the Greenbelt with only site occupancy permits, reducing the burden on companies and citizens.

Going forward, Daegu City plans to roll up its sleeves and continue solving regulations that hinder corporate investment, management, and growth, without being satisfied with the current certification as an excellent regulatory innovation institution.

Kim Kwang-mook, head of Daegu City One-Stop Corporate Investment Center, said, “We will continue innovations that remove all regulatory obstacles to make Daegu a one-stop city favorable for businesses and a city where companies gather.”

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