Business Impact Assessment

Introduction

• Another work focus of business facilitation is to encourage bureaux and departments (B/Ds) to assess the business impact before introducing new regulatory/licensing requirements so as to better take into consideration the operational circumstances and capacity of the trades and understand the costs associated with compliance of the regulatory requirements.

• Through conducting business impact assessments (BIAs), B/Ds can grasp the concerns and compliance difficulties of the affected trades in complying with the regulatory proposals which will facilitate the B/Ds to enhance or fine-tune their regulatory proposals so as to avoid the introduction of unreasonable regulatory or licensing requirements and reduce the compliance cost without compromising public interests.

Business Impact Assessment Framework and tasks under different stages

Business Compliance Cost (BCC) Framework

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