Use the RegInfo Tool (REGI)

Use this play to:

• Learn what steps to take when making regulations at TC.
• Access information you need to make regulations in one easy spot.
• Contact the various TC organizations that can help you with your regulatory proposal.
• Consolidate RDIMS links to working documents associated with your particular proposal.

Running the play:

The RegInfo Tool, also known as REGI, is an interactive tool that integrates a quality management system approach to TC’s regulation-making process. REGI will take you through all stages of regulation development:

• Policy and analysis stage (e.g., policy problem, instrument choice, enforcement plans);
• Regulatory development (e.g., preparing a regulatory impact assessment statement); and
• Approvals and submission (e.g., submitting the proposal for Governor-in-Council approval).

Within each stage are checklists you can use to make sure you’ve satisfied or at least considered all elements of regulatory development.

REGI has other practical features to facilitate your work as a regulatory analyst, novice or veteran. This digital tool also provides you and your colleagues with a shared virtual working environment to monitor the progress of a file and have a common virtual workspace to share and develop work documents.

• A built-in ‘document library’ (under the “Documents” tab) that enables capturing the full history of supporting documents produced over the lifecycle of regulatory development.
• Automated date-stamping to allow progress-tracking.
• Stage-specific guidance, links, policy, and templates to guide the user.
• Subject-specific contact information to ensure experts are consulted efficiently when needed.
• A progress bar, to enable better project management of individual regulations.

By using this tool early in the process, even when your organization is only considering to regulate, you can work with certainty that you have all the information as well as contacts to subject-matter experts that you will need to help you make the best quality regulations possible at Transport Canada.

Use REGI

Any TC employee who works on a regulation-making team can use REGI throughout the stages of the regulation-making lifecycle. However, if you are a TC regulatory analyst, this tool is for you. Using REGI ensures that all regulations are developed in a consistent way, according to the required order of operations, and using the best practices of a modern regulator.

Contact Office of Regulatory Expertise and Operations Unit to obtain permission to access the interactive tool. Already have permission? Go to the RegInfo Tool (Microsoft Dynamics 365) through this link.

REGI was created by the Departmental Regulatory Affairs. For more information, please send an e-mail to the Office of Regulatory Expertise and Operations Unit.

Departmental Regulatory Affairs is responsible for standardizing the development of non-financial Treasury Board submissions (e.g., regulatory proposals) in order to ensure policy coherence, coordinated planning and prioritization, as well as consistent quality of analysis and content that adheres to both Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) directives and guidelines, and regulatory best practices.

Other resources on this topic

• Departments and agencies are expected to follow the Cabinet Directive on Regulation (2018) when preparing a regulatory proposal for TB consideration.

Need more help? Send an e-mail to the Office of Regulatory Expertise and Operations Unit.

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