SmartTape™ Centre for Regulatory Innovation

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada's SmartTape™ Centre for Regulatory Innovation provides a window on the leading developments in regulatory practice and the scholarly analysis of those innovations.

Learning
Explore the latest thoughts, studies and ideas and learn about upcoming SmartTape™ conferences and events.

Teaching
Seminars and courses that will help you implement SmartTape™ solutions in your organization.

Doing
Are you doing SmartTape™? In this section you will find case studies and profiles or real implementations in Canadian government.

Dreaming of the Regulatory Village; Speaking of the Regulatory State: The papers presented at IPAC's international brainstorm on the innovative regulatory state. Twelve leading international thinkers share their thoughts

Current Issues
Regulation and the demand for better traceability throughout the supply chain is driving the search for better, more efficient food safety products in the US, according to a forecast report. For more, click here.

The Chinese government passes a new regulation to ban the uploading and downloading of Internet material without the copyright holder's permission. For more, click here.

The New Zealand competition watchdog, the Commerce Commission, recommends continued regulation of ten areas of telecommunication services for another two years. For the One News story, click here.

Many adults in Canada believe the federal government should directly regulate fuel prices, according to a poll by Ipsos-Reid. Seventy-two per cent of respondents support the measure in order to protect consumers from unfair pricing. For more, click here.

DG Enterprise and Industry organizes a conference in Brussels, 22 June 2006, on reducing administrative burdens on industry from the field of environmental regulation. The aim is to identify initiatives to streamline and simplify environment-related regulatory requirements. For more, click here.

In the Czeche Republic, the ruling Social Democrats promise entrepreneurs less regulation and simplified taxes, alongside transaction-recording cash registers and required submission of assets disclosure schedules. For the full Czeche Business Weekly story, click here.

The debate over regulation of nanotechnology continues. For more, click here.

The Directors of Better Regulation -- an informal intergovernmental group of senior officials from national ministries and the European Commission working on Better Regulation in EU Member States and EU candidate countries -- meets in Helsinki on 11–12 May 2006. For more, click here.

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