Regulatory burden measure supporting evidence report

This report is to help agencies who need to produce a Regulatory Burden and Cost Offset Estimate table (RBCO) for inclusion in a Cabinet Submission, a Regulation Impact Statement, or other Government policy documentation.

The top half of this table will be populated if either of the following questions were answered “No”:

• ‘Is this option deregulatory?’ (under ‘Create an option’)
• ‘Is this option a regulatory offset for a new proposal?’ (under ‘Create an option’ -> ‘Is this option deregulatory?’ -> Yes)

The figures produced in this table will have a negative (‘-‘) sign at the front of the costs for options designated as “deregulatory options” (i.e. those which have answered the question ‘Is this option deregulatory?’ with a “yes”)

The figures shown in this table are calculated as follows:

• If an activity costing is a start-up cost, it has been divided by the number you provided for ‘How many years are you costing?’ in the compliance cost constraints section.
• If variable costs were selected in the set up compliance costs constraints section, the ongoing cost from each year will be added together before being divided by the number you provided for ‘How many years are you costing?’

This methodology applies for the information provided for businesses, community organisations and individuals.

The bottom half of this table will be populated if you answered “Yes” to the ‘Is this option a regulatory offset for a new proposal?’ question (under ‘Create an Option’).

If the question ‘Where does the cost offset originate from?’ (under ‘Create an option’) was answered “agency”, the costs will be displayed in the agency row. If the question was answered “within portfolio” they will be displayed in the within portfolio row. If the question was answered “outside portfolio” they will be displayed in the outside portfolio row.

All costs that appear in this table are rounded to the nearest thousand.

Options

Do you only want to report on one option? Choose the option from the drop-down. Click the Show report button, or fill in the explanatory info, then click the Show button.

Explanatory information

Here, you can add more info to your report, explaining its content or providing some background. You can also include feedback from consultation and any benefits that arise from the option. Click the Show report button.

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Report info

Here, you can see all the report details after you have clicked the Show report button. This info is from the Calculate costs tab.

Click the Export to Excel button. This will let you save the report.

It will be saved as an .xls file, allowing you to open the report in MS Excel.