This Simplification Plan sets out how the Department for Transport (DfT) plans to reduce the burdens imposed by current transport regulations. The Department's overall aim is to ensure that regulation is only applied where necessary, that it is proportionate and targeted at the risks it aims to address, is clear and easy to understand, and is simple to comply with. Where regulation is needed, we aim to reduce both the policy costs and administrative burdens which it imposes on stakeholders, including businesses, citizens, voluntary groups and other organisations delivering or using transport. This Plan includes over 50 actions being taken between now and 2010, in a range of areas, to address ways of simplifying existing regulation. The measures will together deliver over £280 million of economic benefits a year for our partners and stakeholders through, for example, reductions in administrative burdens, reduced compliance costs for businesses, and savings in the time spent on meeting regulations for both business and private citizens. (Author/publisher)
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