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The farmers' protests of 2024 prompted the need for the competent administrations to modify in advance the environmental conditionality of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by means of a new revision simplifying and making a complex legal-administrative system such as the one that currently regulates European agricultural policy more flexible. Despite its short life, it is worth analyzing the pros and cons of this very recent reform in order to draw a series of early conclusions on the future that awaits the CAP after the adoption of the simplification Regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Administrative burden refers to the phenomenon by which the implementation of public policies and, more generally, interactions with the state, are experienced as onerous. Individuals face learning costs when acquiring information about public programs and services, compliance costs when trying to fulfill their rules, and psychological costs (stress, etc.) arising from interacting with these programs and services. This literature, almost exclusively in English, has developed at a breathtaking pace. This review essay takes stock of these recent developments and proposes a discussion structured around three themes: 1) What are administrative burdens and what issues do they raise? 2) What are the sources of burdens? and 3) What are their distributive and political consequences? Avenues for future research are suggested for each of these themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The onset of the European NGEU program represented for European member states a formidable opportunity for post‐pandemic recovery and yet a significant challenge at the same time: to receive and retain EU funds, each state had to promptly draw up a National Recovery and Resilience Plan—NRRP) and commit to a pressing timetable for its implementation. Regarding this challenge, the Italian government's response is a case in point: first, Italy is by far the largest beneficiary of NGEU funds; second, it has long had a reputation for being laggard in both the implementation of European directives and the spending of cohesion policy structural funds; and the formulation of the NRRP, the design of the governance in charge of its implementation, and implementation itself, occurred at a particular moment in the country's political life. Based on these premises, the article examines the upstream process by which the Italian government designed the implementation arrangements for the adoption of simplification policies under the NRRP and their downstream recalibration in the first two years, taking the implementation arrangements as the dependent variable. Analytically, the focus is on the interplay between the pressures of EU timetables and internal political dynamics, be they the legacy or strategic political considerations on the part of national policymakers, in determining the design and eventual re‐design of implementation arrangements as the plan unfolds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using firm-level data from China from 2007 and 2014, this study assesses the impact of administrative simplification on the performance of an outward foreign direct investment. Results estimated by the difference-in-difference method indicate that the administrative simplification has a positive impact on OFDI. The delegation of approval authority can promote the growth of firms' OFDI in China. This result is robust after addressing the concerns of the endogeneity and sample selection bias. Moreover, results of extension studies show that the growth of OFDI contributed by administrative simplification plays a negative role in firms' export performance. Finally, the policy effect of administrative simplification on OFDI is stronger for non-SOEs than SOEs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new information and communication technologies allow their benefits are applied for the improvement of governance, this can be pleasantly translate in the administrative simplification of administrative processes, a situation that with something as important as giving formality to the electronic notification can result in tangible benefits for the administered and the State itself. Currently prevailing ideas that underlie the use of these technologies in the legal field, although his adaptation comes to forced march but there is no doubt that this is the future that awaits us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author analyzes what happened in these ten years regarding issues such as administrative procedure principles, administrative simplification, sanctioning proceedings, administrative site diffuse control and administrative silence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author analyzes what happened in these ten years regarding issues such as administrative procedure principles, administrative simplification, sanctioning proceedings, administrative site diffuse control and administrative silence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. No country and no political regime were immune in front of it. Another pessimistic statement related to the issue is that corruption seems to be very "sticky, once is there it stays there" (Rothstein, 2007). This opinion is sustained also by the fact that in the last decades there were only two successful stories in eradicating corruption: Hong Kong and Singapore. But these are small countries and the anticorruption measures were not always consistent with democratic principles. Romania resembles a case of persistent corruption so, according with what was said above, the conclusion would be that there are few chances to improve our country's situation. Still we present an example that may prove the opposite. During the years 2005-2006 the Ministry of Administration and Interior undertook a public policy that aimed to simplify the administrative procedures for the documents issued by the ministry. The result was a consistent reduction in the time needed for issuing those documents. Also the petty corruption that flourished previously in the field was eradicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was passed by Congress with two formidable tasks: (1) reform the insurance market; and (2) simplify healthcare administrative processes. From these ambitious beginnings, HIPAA has since taken on major healthcare issues including administrative simplification, security, privacy, and patient confidentiality. In November 1997, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS) introduced the proposed ‘standards’ for what is referred to as ‘administrative simplification’. But, establishing the standards and guidelines necessary for administrative compliance was not an easy undertaking. DHHS estimated that 400 different formats were used in the US for healthcare claims processing. Three years later (August 2000), the Final Rule for Standards for Electronic Transactions and Code Sets was published by DHHS. The rule provided for national standardization of the most common healthcare transactions and several code sets. The compliance deadline for implementation of the new transactions and code sets was set for October, 2002. In January 2001, Congress enacted The Administrative Simplification Compliance Act to provide the industry with additional time to reach compliance. Yet, recent survey results by Phoenix Health Systems and the Health Information and Management Society (HIMSS) indicate many providers and payers are not fully compliant with the security and privacy regulations mandated by HIPAA. This issue threatens the effectiveness of administrative simplification and the integrity of healthcare information. Overall, HIPAA does offer the promise of a more efficient and effective means of sharing and disseminating vital healthcare information. But, many experts have concerns that the implementation and maintenance of HIPAA standards and policies will become a financial burden for many in the healthcare industry. Although DHHS has established mandates for the healthcare industry, many deadlines have been extended and the standards of administrative simplification continue to evolve over time. Others question whether the Department of Health and Human Services is capable of spearheading an information technology revolution in the healthcare industry. Unfortunately, it may take several years before the industry is able to realize any true cost savings from administrative simplification. Yet, few can question how HIPAA has revolutionized information technology in the healthcare industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]