Lesson 6: Updating Existing Market Access Requirements
Topic 4: Regulatory Review (Executive Order 13563)
In this topic, you’ll learn about regulatory review and how it can help to ensure that regulations are necessary and up-to-date.
Objective:
- Describe the regulatory review provisions of Executive Order 13563, and discuss how they might affect market access requirements
Sometimes, it is good to look at existing regulations and make sure they still make sense. This is the impulse behind APHIS’ review effort to determine whether pests listed as quarantine pests should be removed from that list, for example. APHIS periodically reviews all its regulations to make sure that they reflect the latest scientific evidence, current industry practices, and other circumstances that can change. Even if a regulation continues to work, there might be ways for it to work better, or evidence might indicate that some or all of the requirements placed on the importation of a commodity are not needed at all. This principle is reflected in Executive Order 13563, which, among its other requirements, indicates that:
“To facilitate the periodic review of existing significant regulations, agencies shall consider how best to promote retrospective analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned. Such retrospective analyses, including supporting data, should be released online whenever possible.”
Executive Order 13563.
In this topic, you learned about regulatory review and how it can help to ensure that regulations are necessary and up-to-date.
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