These difficulties may be partially surmounted if management by results is now adapted to activities to a greater extent. Central regulatory frameworks must exist in order to make the behaviour of the government Chancery and the agencies fundamentally uniform. Such a framework has been put in place in the form of the Government Ordinance Concerning the Annual Reports of State Agencies, etc. These sets of regulations, however, have recently been changed in order to be flexible enough to permit the instruments of management to be adapted to the distinct conditions of the various activities. The government is conducting a pilot project involving adaptation of management by results to specific authorities.
Experience is largely positive.
The ambition is for the management prescribed in the Government approval document for the year 1997 to be adapted to activities and improved. This has applied particularly since the beginning of the 1990s. Demands for modernisation and greater economy have helped to bring about major changes in the organisation and functioning of the State more rapidly than ever before. Such changes have involved abolishing, amalgamating and corporatising government agencies. Part of this work has been the task of finding the right forms for State activity.