Abbreviations and acronyms

ACAAs

Agreements on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products

ASA

Belgian Agency for Administrative Simplification

ATR

Dutch Advisory Board on Regulatory Burden

BMKOES

Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport

BRO

Greece Better Regulation Office

BRU

Better Regulation Unit

CAS

Polish Center for Strategic Analysis

CETA

EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

COVID

Coronavirus disease

COVID-19

Coronavirus disease of 2019

CRPD

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

DAGL

Italian Department for Legal and Legislative Affairs

DBA

Danish Business Authority

DBRF

Danish Business Regulation Forum

DCMS

United Kingdom Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

DCPP

Romanian Department for Coordinating Policies and Priorities

DPA

Danish Protection Agency

EC

European Commission

EPRS

European Parliamentary Research Service

EU

European Union

FCRIA

Finnish Council of Regulatory Impact Analysis

FPMO

Austrian Federal Performance Management Office

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

GEIEAN

Romanian Group for Assessing the Economic Impact of Normative Acts on SMEs

GGO

German Joint Rules of Procedures of the Federal Ministries

GLO

Croatian Government Legislation Office

GoL

Slovenian Government Office of Legislation

GRPs

Good regulatory practices

IAC

Belgian Impact Assessment Committee

IAK

Dutch Integraal Afwegingskader (Dutch Integral Assessment Framework)

IoT

Internet of Things

IRC

International regulatory co-operation

iREG

Indicators of Regulatory Policy and Governance survey

LRV

Czech Government Legislative Council

MoU

Memoranda of understanding

MPA

Slovenian Ministry of Public Administration

MRAs

Mutual Recognition Agreements

MSD

Maltese Ministry within the Office of the Prime Minister

NKR

German National Regulatory Control Council

REFIT

European Commission Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme

RIA

Regulatory impact assessment

ROBs

Regulatory oversight bodies

RSB

Regulatory Scrutiny Board

SBA

Maltese Small Business Act

SCM

Standard Cost Model

SGG

French Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement

UTAIL

Portuguese Technical Unit for Legislative Impact Assessment

WTO

World Trade Organization