Making Regulation Simple

 

Modern Regulation
Environment Agency: regulatory nightmare?

The Environment Agency are in the top 10 English regulators, having:

• A huge range of regulatory issues from nuclear reactors to biodiversity
• 12,000 Staff, some 5,000 on regulatory activities (permitting, monitoring & enforcement)
• More than 250,000 environmental permits and 200,000 inspections every year

New regulations emerging from Brussels will increase this burden:

• Water Framework Directive
• Waste Electrical Equipment
• End of Life Vehicles

Coupled with efficiency drives from Westminster and a focus on risk-based and “better” regulation, the nightmare could become reality.

Modern regulation – leading the way

The EA has chosen to challenge this rising tide of regulatory activity with a bold change in the way they regulate – called “Modern Regulation”.



Policy Framework- click to enlarge

“Modern regulation aims to find the right balance - a proportionate, risk-based response that will drive environmental improvements, reward good performance, but still provide the ultimate reassurance that tough action will be taken on those who fail to meet acceptable standards”

Business change critical

The workforce is the most important part of any business process.Modern regulation will bring about fundamental changes in the way that EA staff work, backed up by a new approach to regulatory systems.
Any change to process is likely to be iterative as staff begin to exploit new systems - with bottlenecks and improvements emerging as time goes on.Traditional regulatory software solutions would need many changes, slowing the process down and increasing costs.

SciSys, working in partnership with the EA, has the solution.

One System that:

• Handles all parts of regulation
• Handles different regulations
• Follows business processes
• Automates issue of simple and low risk permissions
• Follows business processes
• Does not cost the earth