What does good regulatory decision making look like?

This article addresses a key theme of regulatory activity – decision making – in the context of the Government Regulatory Practice Initiative (G-Reg). This initiative has a broad focus on the improvement of regulatory practice and the development of the regulatory profession in New Zealand. In doing so, the article addresses decision making across regulatory systems. The term regulatory systems refers to: tion. Then it deals with implementation and how the advent of G-Reg creates the conditions for improved regulatory decision making in this phase. It concludes with a brief description of what we will see if regulatory decision making at an individual case, industry and system level is, in fact, ‘good’.