Building Next Generation Regulatory Performance: The Regulatory Capability Development Programme in 'Special Report on Next Generation Compliance'

The spectrum of regulatory delivery, including compliance and enforcement, involves a complex series of operations and processes. Effectively addressing the broad diversity of environmental regulatory and crime types requires a high level of coordination across these operations and processes. The Australian Government's Department of the Environment (DoE) has established the Regulatory Capability Development Programme (RCDP) as a means of achieving this coordination. The RCDP involves a cross-cutting, whole-of-agency, and multi-year series of projects. The intent is to build a new level of consistency and integration for the implementation and governance of DoE's fifteen pieces of environmental regulatory legislation.