Regulatory reform has emerged as an important policy area in OECD and non-OECD countries.
For regulatory reforms to be beneficial, the regulatory regimes need to be transparent, coherent, and
comprehensive, spanning from establishing the appropriate institutional framework to liberalising network
industries, advocating and enforcing competition policy and law and opening external and internal markets
to trade and investment.
This report on Enhancing Market Openness through Regulatory Reform analyses the institutional
set-up and use of policy instruments in the United States. It also includes the country-specific policy
recommendations developed by the OECD during the review process.
The report was prepared for The OECD Review of Regulatory Reform in the United States
published in 1999. The Review is one of a series of country reports carried out under the OECD’s
Regulatory Reform Programme, in response to the 1997 mandate by OECD Ministers.
Since then, the OECD has assessed regulatory policies in 16 member countries as part of its
Regulatory Reform programme. The Programme aims at assisting governments to improve regulatory
quality —