Namyangju City in Gyeonggi Province has fully revised its Regulatory Reform Committee Ordinance into the "Administrative Regulation Rationalization Ordinance," which encompasses citizen participation and post-management, the city said Wednesday. The move is intended to institutionally support the regulatory innovation achievements built up by proposing improvements to 131 higher-law regulations over the past three years.
The core of this revision is the introduction of a regulatory review system. The city has established a legal basis to periodically review the need to maintain long-standing regulations and to abolish or ease unnecessary ones. Mandating the specification of regulatory review deadlines aims to prevent perfunctory reviews.
Measures to expand citizen participation are also included. The revision creates a basis for conducting regulatory perception surveys and a "Regulatory Reform Idea Contest." Provisions for rewarding citizens with outstanding proposals were also established to boost participation incentives. The city plans to reflect opinions gathered through the contest in proposals to central government ministries and improvements to local regulations.
The city has been recognized as an outstanding institution for regulatory innovation through its efforts to conduct comprehensive surveys and overhauls of local regulations.
"To realize a self-sufficient city of one million, we will identify and improve unreasonable regulations together with citizens," a Namyangju City official said.
With this ordinance revision, the city has established a "governance administration" system spanning regulatory identification, review, and citizen participation.
