ASEAN countries are moving to adopt Good Regulation Practices (GRP), joining the mainstream of global governance embedded an evidence-based decision-making style into administrative and political processes. In 2019, the ASEAN Governing Body representing the ten State Members endorsed the ASEAN Guidelines on Good Regulatory Practices (GRP). This document intends to help all State Members to improve their regulatory practices when developing World Trade Organization technical regulations (https://asean.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ASEAN-Guidelines-on-Good-Regulatory-Practices2.pdf)
As a driver for the Guidelines implementation, the ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) asked in May 2020 Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and JC&A to launch a 2-year initiative with two components:
- Survey the Member States’ adoption of the best practices signaled in the Guidelines by all ASEAN regulators. This stock-taking will establish a baseline to help countries and ASEAN as a group monitor progress in adopting the Guidelines and detect regional innovations and good practices.
- Organize a series of capacity-building events to introduce and promote the GRP Guidelines in ASEAN developing countries and provide additional advice on its implementation for some of them.
ASEAN Region, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt PTB (Germany), 2020–2021
