C HAPTER 4 Good Governance in the Legislative and Legal Area 73 4 Good Governance in the Legislative and Legal Area Pavlina Popova 4.1. European Union and Good Governance in the Legislative Area Law, broadly speaking, is supposed to support economic and social development, deploy simpler and comprehensible rules, and ensure more effective implemen­tation and adherence to the deployed rules. A well-structured and effective leg­islation helps raise standards and improve effectiveness of both public services and the private sector. The ultimate objective of legislative regulation is to help ensure better business climate, higher productivity, and better public services. On the other hand, a poorly formulated or inappropriate legislation has the opposite effect and may create unnecessary red tape, burden companies with expenditure, harm competitiveness and small businesses, place barriers to business, and become impracticable and, therefore, inapplicable. In light of this, issues of better legislative regulation have long been the sub­ject of attention in a number of developed countries, as well as in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD), the European Union, and other international organisations. Over the years, the European Commission(EC) had ascertained that national administrations found it difficult to keep up with the transposition and application of EU law. The very adoption of legislative acts caused problems for the EU in the legislative field, due to the more complicated pre-conciliation procedure(consul­tations with both EU institutions and Member States). The same applied to their application. What’s more, businesses and citizens had troubles coping with the different arrangements and requirements because of the complexity and heap of administrative laws.