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methods and receptions in foreign countries. The review also includes underlying theories

laying foundations for RIA such as Regulatory theory and Law and Economics. Other
technical and practical topics are also included; principles for compliance of the Act on the
Rules for the Drafting of Legislation and the Evaluation of the Law 2019, social and

economic technique for RIA, RIA report writing and content-consistency assessment for a
legal draft. 2) a case study and other learning materials, supplementing the theoretical

knowledge and aiding the Practicum Certificate Course on Assessments for Law-making and
Efficiency of the Law. instructed by the office of Innovation for Democracy, King
Prajadhipok’s Institute. 3) a handbook on conducting an RIA, which covers both theoretical

grounds and practical case study.

The research team has completed all the aforementioned objectives of the research
on “Building knowledge and Tools for Regulatory Impact Analysis” The summary of the
research is as follows;

1. An overview of a regulatory necessity assessment and a regulatory impact appraisal

The Research team has conducted documentary research and a literature review on
a regulatory impact appraisal in the following topics;
1.1 Fundamental knowledge on a regulatory necessity assessment and a
regulatory impact appraisal

A regulatory impact appraisal system has been called by different names in different
countries, for instance, Regulatory Impact Assessment or RIA in North American countries and

Impact Assessment or IA within the European Union. The term RIA was later endorsed by the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) before the concept is

proliferated to the rest of the world. RIA is one of many methods to solve the problem of
market failure and regulatory failure, thus, it addresses the process of law-making which will

result in a drafted bill that affects some groups of stakeholders or society as a whole.
Despite the lack of consensus on the scope of RIA, majority of countries tend to focus their
energy and research to perform an assessment on some specific areas that would be

impacted by the drafted bill such as the area of economics, society, genders, health and
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environment. The impacted areas as well as the scope of RIA vary in different countries.

16 Claire Dunlop and Claudio Radaelli, Handbook of Regulatory Impact Assessment, (Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar Publishing,2016 ), p.14