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Regulatory impact assessments 2002

  • Last modified date:
    9 February 2007

A regulatory impact assessment (RIA) is a short structured document which is published with regulatory proposals and new legislation. It briefly describes the issue which has given rise to a need for regulation and compares various possible options for dealing with that issue.

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