Access to finance for start-ups in general
Access to finance in general
Administrative regulation in general
Air transportation in general
Allocation of public resources
Antitrust and merger controls in general
Antitrust regulation
Bankruptcy laws
Business support services in general
Business taxation in general
Capital requirements
Concentration regulation
Costs for setting up a business
Creating centres of excellence
Creation, powers and means of authority of the market regulator
E-government
Effective competition
Efficiency of the legal system in general
Electricity in general
Enforcement of IM regulations
Enforcement of contracts
External openness
Financial intermediation in general
Fiscal incentives for private R&D
Gas in general
Horizontal measures
ICT infrastructure
Improving the quality of the regulations
Innovation enhancing public procurement
Intellectual property rights
Internal market in general
Market entry restriction
Market exploration
Market opening
Measures for a second start
Measuring and/or reducing administrative costs
Minimise startup requirements
Mobility of researchers/internationalisation of research
Modernisation of the management
One stop contact points
Others
Post graduate education
Postal services in general
Powers and means of authorities
Pre-school or early childhood activities
Primary and secondary education
Private R&D and innovation in general
Professional services in general
Projects between public research institutions and private enterprises
Provision of services of general economic interest
Public R&D in general
Public local transport in general
Public ownership / privatisation
Public ownership/privatisation
Public private partnership in general
Public procurements
Railways in general
Rationalising public administrative services
Reducing administrative burdens for startups
Regional measures to promote innovation
Sector specific rules
Sector-specific measures
Sectoral measures to promote innovation
Seed financing
Simplification of tax system
Speedy settlement
Standards and norms
Start-up financing
State aid in general
Strengthening applied research
Systematic monitoring
Tax obstacles
Tax rates
Technology transfer
Telecommunication in general
Tertiary education/supply of researchers
Training for entrepreneurship
Transfer of ownership
Transposition of IM directives
Use of ICT
Vocational Training/Apprenticeship
Water in general
Wholesale and retail trade
Access to finance
Access to finance for startups
Administrative regulation
Air transportation
Antitrust and merger controls
Apprenticeship/Vocational Training
Business support services
Business taxation
Efficiency of the legal system
Electricity
Financial intermediation
Gas
Internal market
Others in general
Postal services
Private R&D and innovation
Professional services
Public R&D
Public local transport
Public private partnership
Railways
Rules for a second start
State aid
Telecommunication
Water
Competition policy
Education
Improving the (small) business environment
Market integration
R&D and innovation
Sector specific regulation
Start-up conditions
Knowledge-based economy
Product markets :  business environment and entrepreneurship
Product markets : open and competitive markets
2 legal form requirements removed
2 requirements of permanent resident/domicile in the Czech Republic removed
23 tacit consents introduced
6 age restrictions abolished
8 authorisations extended to unlimited period
9 automatically renewed authorisations introduced
Accelerated process: in order to reduce time and costs during the insolvency procedure, the court could implement the accelerated procedure if it considers that the process doesn't have much complexity, considering a number of objective data.
Adaptation of the road transport regulatory framework to other national laws, such as Freight Land Transport Contract Law, with the purpose of increasing transparency and legal security.
Adaptation of the road transport regulatory framework to the EU regulations, in matters such as the conditions to be complied with in order to be allowed to access the transport operator activity, and rules about railway and road transport public services.
Administrative simplification (recognition of certificates, recognition of obligatory insurance, obligation to disclose information by service providers, etc.)
Amends other laws, notably the Competition Act.
As of December 2011, in implementing the JEREMIE initiative, 3 equity funds had been set up: Venture Fund, Growth Fund and Mezzanine Fund. The managers of all three funds have identified 26 potential investment projects in the amount of EUR 68.7 million. "
Budget law
Conditions regulating authorization processes
Correct the imbalance in the Spanish electricity system through a set of measures to resolve the current imbalance between cost and production and revenues in tariffs for 2012.
Decree
Definition of cross-border provision of services
Definition of services of general economic interest
Development and maintenance of appropriate structures and early warning systems.
Focus on a multi-stakeholder approach including parents, Non-Government Organisations and local community groups.
Focus on flexible exit and entry points into the education system.
Forsees an automatic balancing system that could increase access tariffs if needed (imbalance beyond the limits, see the following point).
Law
Other
Parity of esteem between academic and vocational pathways.
Permits temporary imbalance between costs and revenues but up to a certain limit (less than 2,5% of annual costs; less than 5% accumulated)
Points of Single Contact (PSCs) + specification of information provided
Prevent the current model development model of the gas sector from producing similar imbalances to those in the electricity sector. The heavy investments made in the gas sector in recent years and the decrease in demand have already created an imbalance between revenues and costs, albeit much lower than the existing imbalances in the electricity sector.
Proactive, supportive, timely and accessible measures to tackle ESL by schools and all other structures involved.
Progress were made in improving the professionalization of the Insolvency Administration, in terms of responsibility and training. The reform considers the administration a central element in the legal assistance that could help relieving judicial congestion.
Provides for the establishment, jurisdiction and procedure of the Competition and Consumer Appeals Tribunal; and
Reduce costs in the electricity system so that feed-in tariffs are sufficient to cover the cost of production of regulated activities and achieve a tariff/costs balance in the electricity system.
Reduction of administrative burden and simpler administrative procedures. For instance, an unified authorization for heavy vehicles, an unified authorization for any kind of transport-related activity (as opposed to the various authorizations required for the transport service and for other kind of subcontracting operations), or the implementation of digital proceeding like the visas or the authorizations.
Reform of the Instituto preconsursal, which is an alternative procedure to the insolvency procedure. RD 3/2009 designed such alternative but was then developed in the reformed insolvency law. The Law incorporates several new legislative developments, that are among others: A) the recognition of the privilege of liquid money, which means that those who choose to provide liquid revenues to a company in financial difficulties based on a refinancing agreement, will have half of this amount recognised as senior debt, B) Debt renegotiation agreements agreed by a company with most of its creditors may be imposed on the rest, provided that they have received the support of 60% of debtor's liabilities and a favourable report from an independent body
Restructuring of RENFE-Operadora: RENFE-Operadora has been reorganized into four companies specialized in the different activity areas: Passengers, freight, Maintenance and Rolling Stock Renting, according to RDL 22/2012 and Agreement of the Council of Ministers adopted on September, 27, 2013. The new structure aims to foster dynamism of the railway transport and to get a better adaptation to competition.
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Use of IMI system by public authorities
act as a truly independent and informed monitor, helping to co-ordinate, review and judge the Scottish Government and its regulatory agencies Better Regulation performance;
advise the Scottish Government on all aspects of its Better Regulation agenda, including measuring compliance costs to business, one in one out, proposals for a Local Better Regulation Office etc;
assist people to pursue further levels of academic research;
continue with its original role, to try and resolve specific problems and regulations that were causing Scottish businesses concern;
cooperate efficiently with the foreseen federal credit mediator for SMEs;
examine their situation in detail with the concerned finance organisms to propose adequate solutions;
formulate a strategic approach and to develop processes to improve the regulatory landscape such as making recommendations for improving the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) process;
improve the quality and relevance of the education system;
increase the capacity and level of research, innovation and development activity in Malta.
inform the Gouvernement, generally, about all unsolved major financing problem of SMEs;
reduce skills mismatches particularly within the priority economic sectors;
report annually, helping the Government in its work to improve the regulatory environment for business.
report periodically about the specific mission of the grant of credits to SMEs."
support further research in science and technology; and
to support usefully and efficently SMEs in case of severe financing problems;
Change in existing regulation/action
New regulation/action
Measure targeting (mainly) business community
Measure targeting (mainly) public administration
Targeting population unspecified
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France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
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Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
consumer
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