Incheon City Revises Unnecessary Regulations for Livelihood Recovery... March Applications Accepted

Incheon City will comprehensively overhaul unnecessary regulations to help restore public livelihood.

On the 25th, the city announced that it will operate a 'Focused Reporting Period for Livelihood Regulations' throughout March to quickly resolve difficulties citizens face on the ground.

The reporting targets are unnecessary regulations in the economic, social welfare, health, housing, education, and employment sectors that cause inconvenience to citizens' daily lives. Reports can be submitted through the 'Regulatory Reform Newspaper' and anyone can participate.

The city will also operate a 'Visiting Local Regulation Reporting Center' to address corporate difficulties. By setting visiting sectors quarterly, it plans to actively communicate with small and medium-sized enterprises and small business owners to resolve on-site regulations.

During the focused reporting period and through the Local Regulation Reporting Center, the city plans to promptly resolve short-term improvable local ordinances by cooperating with relevant departments. It will also continuously consult with related ministries to improve central government regulations that hinder regional development.

In particular, to prevent issues discovered on-site from being shelved without tangible results, the city plans to closely analyze cases where regulatory improvement proposals were previously submitted but rejected or deferred for mid- to long-term review by central ministries. Based on this, it will select regionally tailored policies that residents and businesses can feel, and prepare and promote active response measures such as continuously requesting regulatory relaxation.

Last year, the city conducted a comprehensive review of 872 registered local regulations and updated a total of 221 regulations. During this process, it identified items requiring regulatory relaxation or abolition, approved 25 cases through the Incheon City Regulatory Reform Committee, and notified the relevant departments to improve them.

Subsequently, 13 regulations, including the abolition of provisions related to paper import stamps, were improved, and the remaining 12 cases will complete the revision process through interdepartmental consultations.

An Incheon City official stated, "Regulatory reform is an urgent task to stabilize the livelihood that citizens can feel," adding, "We will prioritize overhauling unreasonable regulations in local ordinances that hinder livelihood stability and actively work on revising central laws as well."

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