InsightPublic Policy
How to be useful to a regulator drafting rules about you
Regulators drafting rules for emerging sectors are short of operational detail, not opinions. Companies that supply the former have disproportionate influence on the latter.
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- Typical consultation window
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- Ask per submission
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- Adjectives needed
Submit implementation, not position
A response that explains what a proposed timeline costs to build, with the engineering sequence attached, is more persuasive than any argument about proportionality.
One ask, clearly costed
Submissions with a single prioritised request and a proposed alternative text are the ones that appear in the final rules. Comprehensive responses read as resistance.
Coalitions beat champions
Where several firms make the same operational point in their own words, it stops looking like a commercial interest and starts looking like a fact about the sector.
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