Namyangju-si Achieves Honor as an Excellent Institution for Local Regulatory Innovation by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety

Namyangju City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Joo Gwang-deok) announced on the 30th that it was selected as an excellent local government in the ‘2024 Local Regulation Innovation Promotion Performance Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, receiving a financial incentive of 100 million KRW.

Namyangju City Hall view. Provided by Namyangju City.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety annually selects outstanding local governments that have made efforts to improve unreasonable regulations through the local regulation innovation evaluation, providing awards and financial incentives.

This evaluation was conducted by a professional evaluation team based on the performance of regulatory improvement proposals, improvement efforts, and best practices from January to October, divided into four groups: metropolitan, city, county, and district, targeting 243 local governments nationwide (17 metropolitan, 226 basic local governments).

In particular, the city is recognized as the ‘Grade 1 Regulation Area’ with the most overlapping regulations nationwide. Despite being an area with nine overlapping regulations such as development restriction zones, water source protection zones, waterfront zones, and military facility protection zones, the city was acknowledged for various achievements including ▲efforts to improve rejected tasks ▲efforts to improve shadow and behavioral regulations ▲holding meetings to improve corporate regulations ▲winning awards at the Gyeonggi-do Regulation Improvement Best Practice Competition.

The head of the Legal Affairs Department of Namyangju City Council said, “This achievement is the result of the city’s continuous efforts to improve regulations for citizens suffering from unreasonable overlapping regulations,” and added, “We will continue to actively discover and improve unreasonable regulations to reduce citizens’ inconvenience and enhance their quality of life.”

Meanwhile, the city plans to scientifically and rationally ease overlapping regulations such as water source protection zones and development restriction zones through a ‘Better Regulation’ system in which the central government, local governments, and residents cooperate.

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