The RYA is inviting everbody to get involved with the Government’s Red Tape Challenge as it moves onto the maritime sector on 10 November 2011 for five weeks. The aim of the challenge is to help free discussion of the steps by which the goals of existing regulation can be achieved in the least disturbing way possible.
With the focus now on the maritime sector the Department for Transport wants to gather thoughts and ideas from those who deal with regulations on a day-to-day basis on which regulations should stay, which could be merged, which can be scrapped and so on.
Gus Lewis RYA Head of Government Affairs: “This is a great opportunity for us all, from clubs and training centres, to volunteers and boaters and the RYA to let Government know what we think about existing regulation and its impact upon our activities.”
“As a preliminary to the Red Tape Challenge opening publicly the RYA met informally with the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Department for Transport to discuss the process and to enable us to identify where the RYA’s intervention might be most effective.”
“The RYA believes that any legislation or regulation should be transparent, accountable, proportionate and consistent and only targeted at cases where sound risk and evidence analysis demonstrates that such action is needed.”
“This process gives us a unique opportunity to challenge those regulations that do not satisfy these criteria and in doing so to set a benchmark against which future legislative proposals might be measured” concludes Gus.
At the end of the five weeks Ministers will have three months to decide what action they will take in light of the experience and ideas they have received from the sector.
The Government’s Red Tape Challenge, which will be conducted across all departments and sectors, started in April 2011 and will run until April 2013.
