LBRO launches new products following review
4 February 2011
A number of new projects are being launched by the regulatory delivery organisation LBRO today, to ensure progress towards the Government's plans for streamlined and improved regulation.
In order to continue the simplification of the regulatory system through Primary Authority and other deregulatory functions Business Minister Mark Prisk MP has announced his intention that LBRO's work will be carried forward by a streamlined body within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
LBRO's work will now focus on a series of new projects promising better outcomes for communities and businesses.
The new projects include:
* Exploring earned recognition with major companies including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Iceland, Moto, Wetherspoons, Argos and Homebase and the Primary Authorities they work with.
* Piloting the application of Primary Authority principles to support for small businesses with a number of local authorities.
* Consulting on national enforcement priorities for England.
* Working with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and the Trading Standards Institute, through the World Class Coalition, to introduce a common and transparent framework of professional standards of competency
* Working with leading business organisations to consider alternative approaches to the regulation of date coded food
* Testing a common approach to risk assessment with national and local regulators.
The new streamlined body would work with the Better Regulation Executive (BRE) and the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) on the design and delivery of new approaches and alternatives to regulation; creating the right conditions for these new approaches to be adopted through accountability and collaborative working.
LBRO Chair Clive Grace said: "The new arrangements will build on our successes, and we will work closely with BRE and BIS colleagues to deliver even better outcomes that benefit business and consumers.
"We are very proud to be delivering a great number of successes in better local regulation - not least 500 primary authority partnerships with 155 businesses. We look forward to developing Primary Authority and other regulatory functions, and continuing to move the better regulation agenda forward."
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