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Pursuant to Government Resolution No 420 of 13 April 2005, a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) became obligatory for any legislative material submitted to the Government of the Czech Republic. The RIA process includes a set of methods aimed at systematically assessing both the positive and negative impacts of proposed or existing legal regulations. Impact assessment is a subsidiary decision-making tool required for the approval of all generally binding legal regulations prepared by ministries and other central administrative authorities.

A two-stage process was chosen for the RIA. Based on anticipated impacts, either a shortened version of the RIA is applied (a small RIA), or, in the event major impacts or threats of a state policy are anticipated, a deeper analysis is performed (a large RIA); a large RIA is derived from the small RIA and expands upon it.

The RIA process has to be applied the moment a government department starts thinking about including a legislative task into the government’s plans of legislative work, i.e. from the very second that a solution to a problem is being considered. An integral part of the RIA process is consultations with concerned entities.

Steps of the impact analysis:

• Identifying a problem
• Defining targets
• Elaborating main alternatives
• Analysing impacts
• Comparing alternatives
• Proposing follow-up monitoring and assessment of different regulatory acts