Links

Connect to sites of work on regulation. We provide links to key government pages and online papers addressing issues in regulation. Our primary focus is the many institutes, institutions and centres working in the field of regulation. These are broken down into the categories of general, specific industries, and a section dedicated to the many disorganized pages on the OECD web site.

Institutes, Institutions and Centres

General:

The New Rules Project
http://www.newrules.org/

Centre for Progressive Regulation
http://www.progressiveregulation.org/

Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation, University of Washington
http://www.epp.cmu.edu/csir/

Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/experts/departments/Centre_for_Analysis_of_Risk_and_Regulation.htm

Centre for Competition and Regulation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
http://www.ccr.uea.ac.uk/default.shtml

Covington & Burling, Major International Law firm, working in many areas of regulation
http://www.cov.com/practice/4/index.html

e-Rulemaking Research Web Site
http://erulemaking.ucsur.pitt.edu/default.htm

E-Rulemaking: New Direction for Technology and Regulation (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/Conferences/rpp_rulemaking/home.htm

Food Safety and Regulation, Environews
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/topic/foodsafe.html

Op-Ed pieces on Regulation, the Media Centre, The Objectivist Centre
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/mediacenter/op-eds-topic.asp?Keyword=Regulation

Centre for Regulatory Effectiveness
http://www.thecre.com/regbylit/private_20011220.html

Mercatus Center, Regulatory Studies Program

The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
http://www.aei.brookings.org/

Regulatory Studies, CATO Institute
http://www.cato.org/research/reglt-st.html

Citizens for a Sound Economy, a Pro-Market group
http://www.cse.org/informed/key_template.php?issue_it=9

Harvard Centre for Risk Analysis
http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/

Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/centres/regstudies/

Regulation Research Section, The Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/index.cfm

Taxes and Regulation, The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute
http://www.adti.net/gw-taxreg.html

U.S. Legislation, Law and Regulations, Government Documents Library, University of Illinois
http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/doc/legreg.htm

Canadian enviroOSH Legislation and Standards, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
http://www.oshforeveryone.org/leg/documents/ont/oneht/onrsaie0.htm

The Doing Business Database on regulation. Knowledge Services for Private Sector Development. Sponsored by The World Bank and International Finance Corporation.
http://rru.worldbank.org/DoingBusiness/

Specific Industries:

Biotechnology

Biotechnology Case Law and Regulation, The Medical and Public Health Law Site, Louisiana State University.
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/blaw_cases-regs.htm

Food

Regulation and Food Safety, International Dairy Foods Association
http://www.idfa.org/reg/index.cfm

Australian Government, Food Regulation Secretariat
http://www.foodsecretariat.health.gov.au/

Food Standards, Australia and New Zealand
http://www.anzfa.gov.au/mediareleasespublications/publications/evaluatingbenefitsan1610.cfm

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Home page
http://www.fda.gov/default.htm

Financial and Securities

Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne, Australia
http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/

Faculty of Financial Regulation, Institute of Financial Services
http://www.ifslearning.com/randr/index.htm

Internet

Privatization of Regulation of Internet Commerce and Telecommunication and Information Services, International Communications Studies Program
http://www.csis.org/ics/regulation.html

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Information Centre, Foundation for Information Policy Research (Internet)
http://www.fipr.org/rip/

Tobacco

Federal Regulation of Tobacco, American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11223

Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation & Advocacy, University of Maryland School of Law
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/tobacco/

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development:

Environmental Information and Public Participation
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34407_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Environmental Policies, Enforcement and Compliance
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34339_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34387_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Regulation and Sectors
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34753_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Regulatory Reform: Economic Issues
http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,2340,en_2649_34323_2367297_1_1_1_1,00.html

Regulatory Developments in Member Countries in Bio-safety
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34393_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Regulatory Reform: Economic Issues
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34323_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Regulatory Reform for Market Openness: A Case for Good Governance
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34157_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Government sites

Canada

REGULATION.GC.CA
http://www.regulation.gc.ca/default.asp?Language=E&Page=Home

External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation, Government of Canada
http://www.smartregulation.gc.ca/en/04/faq-01.asp

Red Tape Commission, Government of Ontario
http://www.redtape.gov.on.ca/

Self-Regulation, Voluntary Codes and Standards, Industry Canada, Government of Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ca01739e.html

Regulation of Biotechnology in Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/sci/biotech/bioteche.shtml

Voluntary Codes page, Industry Canada, Government of Canada
http://www.strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ca00880e.html

USA

The central portal for information and the opportunity to comment on U.S. regulation.
http://www.regulations.gov

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. U.S. Office of Management and Budget. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/

Laws and Regulations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html

Legislation and Regulation, Food-borne Illness Education Centre, USDA & FDA
http://peaches.nal.usda.gov/foodborne/fbindex/Regulations.asp

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Home page
http://www.fda.gov/default.htm

Europe

Regulation and Licensing, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
http://www.sepa.org.uk/regulation/index.htm

Regulation and Risk Assessment, Belgian Bio-safety Clearing-house
http://biosafety.ihe.be/HomePage.html

Australia

Australian Government Self-Regulation page
http://www.selfregulation.gov.au/default.asp

Australian Government, Food Regulation Secretariat
http://www.foodsecretariat.health.gov.au/

Food Standards, Australia and New Zealand
http://www.anzfa.gov.au/mediareleasespublications/publications/evaluatingbenefitsan1610.cfm

Papers online

The final report of Canada's External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation
http://www.smartregulation.gc.ca/en/08/rpt_fnl.pdf

A report produced by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government on the potential for e-rulemaking, 2004. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/E-Rulemaking_Report.pdf

“The Internet and public participation in rulemaking,” by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/research/rpp/RPP-2003-05.pdf
A report to the U.S. Congress on the costs and benefits of regulation, 2002
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/wpi.nsf/vwWPTW/876CA01C28CCC14485256C980066984C/$File/2002_report_to_congress.pdf

International Labour Organization, A paper on “Democratic Regulation.”
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/papers/pubserv/demreg.pdf

"Legitimacy, Democracy and Multi-Level Regulatory Governance: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology," 2002 http://www.iigr.ca/conferences/archive/pdfs1/skogstad.pdf

“Self-Regulation and Privacy Online: A Report to Congress,” 1999
http://www.ftc.gov/os/1999/07/privacy99.pdf

A Paper on Co-regulation of the online environment,
http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000192/01/Chen_paper.pdf

“Trends in Food Safety Regulation and Their Impact on Trade Disputes”
http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/publications/pdf/SPS%20brown%20bag.pdf

A paper on self-regulation and voluntary compliance,
http://www.eco.on.ca/english/publicat/rndtbl1.pdf

Internet Privacy and Self-Regulation, Lessons from the Porn Wars, CATO Institute Briefing Paper,
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp65.pdf

“Public Regulation and Voluntary Approaches to Food Safety for Credence Goods”
http://uf.ilb.uni-bonn.de/eaae/pdf/Venturini.pdf

An inventory of 233 corporate codes of conduct, OECD
http://appli1.oecd.org/olis/1998doc.nsf/4cf568b5b90dad994125671b004bed59/fbb5238c1f7bfc62802567630060361b/$FILE/04E95110.pdf

An amusing take on voluntary regulation from The Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0247/fiore.php

“Beyond Regulation: Exporters and Voluntary Environmental Measures”
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pdf/beyondregulation.pdf

Netherlands

ACTAL is the Dutch Advisory Board on Administrative Burdens, an independent advisory body that advises the Dutch government on red tape reduction issues. Their website is in Dutch with an English section.

www.actal.nl See also: www.compliancecosts.com