Trainings and seminars on regulatory impact assessment

The Institute for Public Administration and Governance (IPAG) of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” organizes short- and medium-term career development courses for state and municipal employees / employees of subordinated institutions on “Regulatory Impact Assessment” program. The standard program is designed for 18 academic hours (two days), other formats are possible - 1 day (8-10 hours), 2 months (72 hours extra-mural), part-time. An example of a 1-day seminar program. All participants are provided with detailed electronic readers (regulatory framework, Russian and foreign cases, articles).

Upon request, educational programs for the following target groups can also be prepared:

• head executives and employees of corporate departments (PR / GR / Risk Management), dealing with issues of regulatory risk management;
• representatives of NGOs involved in public expertise of laws and draft laws, efficiency of legislation, and involved in organizing public consultations (discussions), etc.;
• regional development corporations / regional offices of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives;

If you are interested in the programs, you can contact us by Tel.: +7 (495) 621-7500 and / or by e-mail: dtsygankov@hse.ru (Daniel Tsygankov).

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The purpose of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is to improve the quality of standard-setting decisions based on detailed forecasting of their consequences and selection of the optimal regulation option based on calculations and public consultations. In May 2010, RIA procedure was consolidated in the Regulations of the Government of Russia, in the rules for the preparation of regulatory legal acts of federal executive bodies and their state registration; RIA Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia was established.

In order to successfully implement measures to introduce Regulatory Impact Assessment procedures and tools at different levels of government (federal regulators, departments of the economic block of the subjects of the Russian Federation, offices of commissioners for investors' rights protection in federal districts, large municipalities), IPAG offers them in-depth training on the mechanisms and methods of conducting RIA for civil servants responsible for drafting regulatory legal acts and assessing the effectiveness of existing legislation. In recent years employees of the RIA Center have conducted trainings / participated in them as invited lecturers, conducted webinars, read modules on career development courses and MPA for employees of central, regional and municipal authorities, teach a 40-hour course at the HSE Master’s program.

In addition, employees of the Center are making efforts to maintain the teaching quality at the international level - they regularly attend training modules on methods and approaches in the evaluation of programs and RIA in foreign universities - Bern University (2007, 2008, 2010), Saarbrucken University (2007, 2009), meet with colleagues (the Ministry of Justice and Economics of Switzerland, the Ministry of Justice and Security of the Netherlands, the Higher Council for Standards Control under the Office of the Federal Chancellor of Germany, the UK's Regulatory Policy Committee, etc.), speak at the professional international conferences – International Regulatory Reform Conference (2011, 2013), ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance (2016), OECD (2012, 2014, 2016), European Evaluation Society (since 2006, 2008, 2012, 2016), German Evaluation Society (since 2005), Spanish Evaluation Society(2009), International Network “Program Evaluation” (2005-2012), Российская Association of Specialists in Program and Policy Evaluation (с 2015) e.g.

List of workshops and trainings conducted by the employees of the RIA Center

2016

• November 16 (Minsk, Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, civil servants of government bodies of the Republic of Belarus) – in-depth seminar “Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Republic of Belarus: Towards the Start of 2017”.
• June 23 (St. Petersburg, Committee for Entrepreneurship Development and Consumer Market, civil servants of St. Petersburg) – training workshop “Practical issues of RIA and ex-post evaluation procedures in St. Petersburg”. Read more...

2015

• December 7 (Minsk, Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, civil servants of government bodies of the Republic of Belarus) - in-depth seminar “Regulatory Impact Assessment of in the Republic of Belarus: participation in supranational procedures and development prospects at the national level”
• November 20 (Tula, Ministry of Economic Development of the Tula region) - in-depth seminar for government and business “Practical issues of RIA development procedures in the Tula region”. Read more...
• May 12-13 (Yerevan, civil servants of government bodies of the Republic of Armenia) - workshop “Impact Assessment as an effective tool for Better Legislation” for the authorities of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of the OSCE / ODIHR project.

2014

• December 22-23 (Arkhangelsk, Ministry of Economy of the Arkhangelsk Region) – workshop for employees of regional government bodies “Regulatory Impact Assessment at the Regional Level”.
• December 19 (Arkhangelsk, Ministry of Economy of the Arkhangelsk Region) – practice oriented training seminar on the regulatory impact assessment (expertise) for specialists of the executive bodies of state power of the Arkhangelsk region, specialists of local government bodies of municipal entities of the Arkhangelsk region. Read more...
• November 24 (Minsk, Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, civil servants of government bodies of the Republic of Belarus) - workshop “Regulatory Impact Assessment” for government bodies of the Republic of Belarus.
• November 6-7 (St. Petersburg, Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity of the Leningrad Region) - methodological seminar on the introduction and implementation of regulatory impact assessment procedures in the Leningrad Region for the employees of the executive bodies of the region.
• October 29 (Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Regional Business Incubator) - workshop on the introduction of regulatory impact assessment (expertise) at the municipal level in the Arkhangelsk region for employees of regional and municipal authorities.
• October 20 - December 1 (Yakutsk, Center for Strategiс Research of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia) - distant course (72 hours) “Regulatory Impact Assessment” for municipal employees of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia.
• June 20 (St. Petersburg, Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity of the Leningrad Region) - methodological seminar on the introduction and implementation of regulatory impact assessment procedures in the Leningrad Region for the employees of the executive bodies of the region. Read more...
• June 19 (St. Petersburg, Committee for the Development of Entrepreneurship and the Consumer Market) - practical seminar for the executive authorities of St. Petersburg on RIA procedure for the employees of government bodies of the city.
• June 10 (Moscow, Federal Customs Service of Russia) - in-depth seminar on RIA for employees of the divisions of the central office of the Federal Customs Service of Russia.
• April 24 (Moscow, Federal Tax Service of Russia) - in-depth seminar on RIA for employees of the central office of the Federal Tax Service of Russia.
• February 26 (Moscow, Department of Economic Policy and Development of Moscow) - training seminar “Implementation of Regulatory Impact Assessment at the Regional Level in Russia” for employees of Moscow Government departments.

2013

• December 20 (Astana, School of Political Management “Nur Otan”, representatives of government bodies, deputies of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan -  workshop “Regulatory Impact Assessment” for Government Bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan”.
• December 13 (Moscow, Federal Tax Service of Russia, employees of the Federal Tax Service of Russia) - impulse seminar “Use of RIA mechanism”.
• December 4-5 (Moscow, Business Development Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission, employees of the Eurasian Economic Commission Departments) – practical seminar “Assessing the impact of draft supranational laws and regulations on conditions for doing business on the territory of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space: example of non-tariff regulation of mutual trade of certain goods”.
• November 21 (Lipetsk, Lipetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, employees of government bodies of the Lipetsk Region) - training seminar “Issues of RIA introduction at the regional level” Read more...
• November 11 - December 15 (distant course for regional officials, 72 hours).
• November 11-12 (Salekhard, civil servants of government bodies of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District) - training seminar “Regulatory Impact Assessment” for civil servants of government bodies of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Read more...
• October 11 (Moscow, Higher School of Economics, civil servants from Russian regions) - academic-practical seminar “Issues of RIA introduction at the regional level”. Read more...
• September 23 - November 4 (distant course for regional officials, 72 hours) Read more...
• September 20 (Kiev, government officials of the government bodies of the Ukraine) – workshop on Regulatory Impact Analysis for Ukrainian civil servants (together with Scott Jacobs from “Jacobs, Cordova & Associates”, USA).
• September 5 (St. Petersburg, civil servants of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region) - workshop “Development of the Regulatory Impact Assessment Institute in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region”. Read more...
• July 3 (Moscow, Eurasian Economic Commission departments) - training seminar “Organization and carrying out RIA of draft regulatory legal acts of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space”. Read more...
• May 29 (Moscow, Federal Customs Service of Russia, employees of the departments of the Federal Customs Service of Russia) - impulse seminar “Use of RIA mechanism”. Read more...
• May 18 (Syktyvkar, Komi Republican Academy of Public Service and Management, civil servants of the Komi Republic) – career development course “RIA in modern public administration. Read more...
• May 15 (Moscow, heads of analytical services of legislative and executive regional authorities) - seminar-meeting. Read more...
• April 10-11 (Moscow, employees of the Eurasian Economic Commission departments) - training seminar on Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Eurasian Economic Commission Departments. Read more...
• March 1 (Moscow, Higher School of Economics, civil servants from 6 regions of Russia) - academic-practical seminar “Issues of RIA introduction at the regional level”. Read more...

2012

• December 13 (St. Petersburg, CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, deputies of the St. Petersburg Parliament, officials from the regions of the North-West, representatives of business associations) - round table “Specific Steps for Implementing an Effective Regulatory Impact Assessment Procedure in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region”. Read more... 
• December 7-8 (Yakutsk, Institute of Management under the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), civil servants of the regional government bodies) - training seminar “Regulatory Impact Assessment” for civil servants of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Read more...
• November 8 (Moscow, Moscow City University of Management, employees of the regional government bodies of Moscow) - training seminar within the framework of RIA pilot in the Complex for Economic Policy and Development of Moscow. Read more...
• October 17 (Moscow, Lomonosov Moscow State University, representatives of federal and regional authorities, representatives of business community, universities) - conference “Theory and Practice of Regulatory Impact Assessment”. Read more...
• October 12 (Moscow, Higher School of Economics, civil servants from 12 regions) - cluster training seminar “Issues of RIA introduction at the regional level”.
• September 27-28 (Arkhangelsk, Ministry of Economic Development and Competition Policy of the Arkhangelsk Region, civil servants of the Arkhangelsk Region) - training seminar “Issues of RIA introduction at the regional level”. Read more...
• July 12-13 (Moscow, Moscow City Administration, employees of the regional government bodies of Moscow) - training seminar within the framework of RIA pilot in the Complex of Economic Policy and Development of Moscow. Read more...
• July 6 (Moscow, Higher School of Economics, civil servants from 5 regions) - cluster training seminar “Issues of RIA introduction at the regional level”. Read more...
• June 25 (Lipetsk, Lipetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry) - workshop “Prospects for the introduction and development of RIA procedure at the regional level”.
• May 24 (St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representatives of the governments of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation) - conference “Prospects for the introduction and development of RIA procedure in the subjects of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation”. Read more... 
• May 5 (Vilnius, students of the School of Young Managers of Public Administration) - lectures “RIA Practice”. Read more...
• March 29 (Minsk, representatives of the Ministry of Economy of Belarus, employees of academic institutions, university lecturers, experts, representatives of NGOs) - workshop “Best practices of government regulation: international experience of Regulatory Impact Assessment”. Read more...

2011

• September 16 (Moscow, employees of the State Duma’s of the Russian Federation Central office) - lectures “Regulatory Impact Assessment (general principles)” and “Introduction of Regulatory Impact Assessment in Russia at the federal level” at the career development courses for employees of the State Duma’s Central office. Read more...
• July 13 (Zvenigorod, HSE Summer School, students from Europe, the CIS and Russia) – Regulatory Impact Assessment block (2 lectures and practical work) at the International Summer School of the Center for Comparative Law of the Higher School of Economics “Innovations in Economics and Jurisprudence”. Read more...
• May 19-20 (Moscow, Higher School of Economics, civil servants from 11 regions) - cluster training seminar “Regulatory Impact Assessment”. Read more...
• April 14 (Moscow, heads of the RF representative offices in Moscow, officials of the federal executive bodies) - seminar of the Moscow International Business Association “Theory and Practice of RIA” (together with Scott Jacobs – “Jacobs, Cordova & associates”, USA). Read more...

2010

• December 9 -10 (Moscow, city department officials) - workshop of the Moscow International Business Association “Theory and Practice of RIA” (in cooperation with Andrea Renda - CEPS, Belgium). Read more...
• November 18 (The Federation Council, heads of analytical services of regional parliaments) - presentation on the topic “Formation of Regulatory Impact Assessment procedures in the Russian Federation” at the seminar “Reports of government authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation on the current situation with legislation: experience, features, prospects”. Read more...
• November 15 (Moscow, Academy of National Economy, lecturers of regional universities) - lecture “Regulatory Impact Assessment” within the framework of career development training for lecturers of regional universities (including the RANEPA system) on “Optimization of the provision of municipal services using information and communication technologies” Read more...
• February 26 (Vladikavkaz, Institute of Management, employees of the republican departments) - training for civil servants of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the framework of the World Bank project “Development of Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania”. Phase 2 of the Pilot”.

2009

• December 9-10 (Kazan) - training for the leadership of the Mayor's office of Kazan “Theory and practice of making managerial decisions: Program Evaluation and RIA. Read more...
• March 30-31 (Vladikavkaz, Institute of Management) - training “Introduction of RIA at the regional level in North Ossetia-Alania” for regional civil servants. Read more...