providing Good Quality Comment on Consultation DocumentsThe members of the Regulatory Intelligence Networking Group discuss their best practice guide for writing a value-added stakeholder commentary.

摘要

One of the core responsibilities of a regulatory intelligence professional is to design and manage internal processes that ensure that draft guidance documents, regulations and legal provisions issued for public consultation are identified and get reviewed by relevant company experts1. Where appropriate, the commenting process must also ensure that a well-drafted company response is submitted in a timely manner to industry trade bodies and/or regulatory authorities.Based on our accumulated experience in generating concise and value-added stakeholder commentaries on consultation documents, as well as on internal impact assessments performed on the final published documents, we, the members of the Regulatory Intelligence Networking Group (RING), have developed the following "Golden Rules" to help document reviewers and comment co-ordinators provide good quality comments.Although RING is an EU-based organisation, we hope that our advice will be useful to all organisations that provide comments on consultation documents, regardless of where they are based or to which authority they are responding. We provide some basic rules, which companies may wish to amend and adapt to suit their own requirements.