Fourth Dag van de Wetgeving (Day of Legislation)
Today, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HiiL addressed a national conference of regulators and drafters of legislation at the fourth Dag van de Wetgeving, held in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, The Hague.
In his speech Mr. Tabaksblat set out three main movements that challenge the existing paradigms in the area of regulation:
(a) bottom-up pressures from the actors in the legal system which increasingly engage in cross-border interaction;
(b) top-down pressures from the increasing array of international regulatory instruments; and
(c) continuing shifts between public and private.
He advocated more awareness of the fact that legal systems are not stand-alone systems any more and raised a number of important questions relating principally to coherency of regulatory systems and to viable institutional structures within which rules can be made and implemented. “Globalisation needs regulation. And because we as users of law live in that globalising world we need to find ways to adapt legal systems to that reality.” The speech of Mr. Tabaksblat can be found here (in Dutch, please note that an English translation will be made available shortly).
The press release can be found here.