AI & Customs Series. Episode 2: cutting red tape

Episode 2 of CustomsClear's "AI & Customs Series" looks at why regulation keeps growing and how "norm engineering" can close the gap between lawmaking and implementation — a topic directly relevant to customs and trade compliance professionals dealing with ever-expanding rulebooks.

Topics covered:

• Statistics on the growth of regulation (US federal regulations, EU lawmaking, French and OECD compliance-cost estimates) and past simplification attempts (UK's Office of Tax Simplification)
• Why regulation is, in part, an unavoidable feature of a complex civil society
• The structural gap between lawmaking and implementation caused by the separation of powers (trias politica)
• "Norm engineering" as a method for closing that gap, built on cooperation between lawmakers and implementers and on traceability between legal provisions and implementation artefacts
• The role of artificial intelligence in speeding up norm engineering and norm analysis
• A Netherlands example of machine-readable legislation directly usable in implementation systems

For a broader overview of the topic, please watch the full recording.

Please note that this summary was generated using AI, based on the recording and available slides.