Red Tape Reduction and Audit
The Australian Government has committed to a red tape reduction programme to boost productivity growth and enhance competitiveness across the Australian economy. One component of the programme is to undertake an audit of all regulations and estimate the compliance cost for a sample of those regulations. Further information about the red tape reduction programme can be found at:
Cutting Red Tape website.
Regulations by burden level
As part of the red tape audit, the regulations that CASA is responsible for administering have been ranked in terms of their burden on industry. The ranking of the regulations was produced using a methodology developed by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet that takes into account:
- the type of requirements the regulation imposes;
- the complexity of the regulation;
- the reach of the regulation;
- the frequency of interactions with the regulation;
- currency of review; and
- scope for reform.
The initial audit results ranking CASA regulations by burden level are set out in the following spreadsheet:
Ranking of Regulations (
28KB). CASA invites comment on the appropriateness of the initial ranking of the regulations by the high, medium and low burden level. Suggested changes to the burden level of individual regulations may be provided in the spreadsheet and sent via an email attachment to
[email protected].
Compliance costs
CASA has been requested by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development to estimate the compliance costs of three regulations as part of the Government’s red tape reduction programme. The three regulations are Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Part 92, Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Part 99 and Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Part 4. The compliance costs have been estimated using a methodology set by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and further information on this methodology can be found at:
regulatory burden measurement framework.
A central focus of the methodology is the time it takes individuals or businesses to comply with the regulatory requirements and the value of that time. Several assumptions were made in order to produce the estimates, these assumptions were informed by consultation with a select group of industry participants and now it is important to test that these assumptions are appropriate and representative for the entire industry. CASA invites comments on the appropriateness of the assumptions used to produce the cost estimates in the following three papers and alternative assumptions if that is considered appropriate.
Please send any comments to
[email protected] by the
10th November 2014, including any relevant documents/spreadsheets.