Regulatory governance: should it be strengthened or oversimplified?
Articles25 June 2026
Amid the ever-necessary discussions about the future of the regulatory framework in Costa Rica, we must ask ourselves: are we designing institutions to make better decisions, or simply to make decisions more quickly?
"The OECD and G20 Principles of Corporate Governance (2023) provide a useful framework for answering that question. Although designed for the business world, they now serve as a global benchmark for assessing the quality of public decision-making, particularly within technical bodies such as Aresep and Sutel. Based on this standard, it is worth examining three key issues: the current model, proposals for institutional simplification, and the improvements that really matter,” comments Erick Jiménez, our expert in Public and Regulatory Law at ECIJA Legal Costa Rica.
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