Research and analysis

Information based regulation: new roles for regulators

A review looking at the use and effectiveness of information-based regulation (IBR) across the policy areas of environment, food and energy.

From:
Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
29 May 2018

Documents

Information based regulation: new roles for regulators in shaping regulatory compliance

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Details

IBR refers to schemes where information is used to drive behaviour change to achieve social, environmental or public policy objectives. Examples of such schemes are:

  • mandatory labelling
  • certification
  • rating
  • rankings
  • online pollution inventories
Published 29 May 2018