Tackling Overlapping Development Restrictions and Military Facility Regulations with 'One Team' Approach

To proactively address overlapping regulations such as development restriction zones and military facility protection zones, Gyeonggi Province has launched the 'Gyeonggi Province Regulatory Innovation Task Force' and decided to integrate roles that were previously scattered across different departments and agencies.

On the 22nd, the province held the first meeting of the 'Gyeonggi Province Regulatory Innovation Task Force' in the Gyeonggi Research Institute's conference room, presided by Park No-geuk, Director of Economic Affairs. Director Park will serve as the task force head to implement a coordinated response system at the provincial level.

The task force involves the Regulatory Reform Division, Special Policy Division, Regional Policy Division, Spatial Strategy Division, Water Quality Policy Division, Water and Sewerage Division, Military Cooperation Official, and the Gyeonggi Research Institute.

The province recognizes that overlapping regulations are linked to multiple laws and central government agencies, and individual departmental proposals alone have limitations in resolving the issues. Accordingly, the province plans to comprehensively discover and manage dispersed improvement projects through the task force.

Projects will be managed in four stages. Improvement projects will be discovered to establish a project pool. This targets unaddressed projects, those under long-term review, and field difficulties repeatedly raised by municipal governments, businesses, and residents.

Key candidate projects will be selected, and then analyzed jointly by relevant departments and the Gyeonggi Research Institute to be upgraded into executable policy and institutional improvement projects. In cases where comprehensive improvement is difficult, phased alternatives will be prepared. Upgraded projects will undergo comprehensive review by the task force, be confirmed as priority regulatory improvement projects by the Regulatory Rationalization Committee, and will be linked as agenda items for the permanent regulatory innovation consultation body.

Park No-geuk, Director of Economic Affairs and head of the task force, emphasized, "The performance of the task force should not be evaluated by how many meetings were held or how many projects were discovered. What matters is how many regulations were actually changed, and as a result, whether corporate investment became possible and whether residents' inconveniences were resolved."

The province plans to consolidate projects discovered by each department in November, connect them with the Gyeonggi Research Institute, and begin selecting and upgrading core candidate projects in November and December.