Hampton implementation review
The better regulation executive have published a "Hampton implementation review" of NMO's regulatory functions. The review team found that the regulatory functions of NMO in the main followed the Hampton principles of better regulation and the characteristics of effective sanctions defined by the Macrory Review. The review team were "very impressed" with the regulatory functions under direct control of NMO (i.e. the enforcement of RoHS legislation) but made some recommendations that NMO "could take a stronger influencing role in particular around the consistency of [weights & measures] enforcement e.g. inspections" [by local authorities].
Download a copy of the report - which has been published on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) website. Please note that you must look under the heading "Phase 2 - Model 2 (December 08 - December 09)" where you will find "National Measurement Office" which appears under this heading.
Richard Sanders, NMO's director of regulation said: "This has been a valuable benchmarking exercise for us and while I am pleased the report is generally positive, there are areas for improvement we will be looking to address. I'm grateful to the review team for their time and constructive feedback on our performance."
NMO has already addressed most of the review recommendations but will publish a formal response in the summer of 2010 (NMO's formal response issued in the summer of 2010 (PDF, 101 Kb) ).
