2002/03 Annual Service Plan Report Ministry of Energy and Mines

Performance Reporting

This section contains two sets of tables. The first set identifies the Ministry's goals, objectives and strategies pertaining to core business areas and show the linkages between goals and the Ministry's key strategies.

The second set of tables identifies the Ministry's performance measures and targets for 2002/03. When variances between targets have occurred, explanations are included.

Links Between Goals, Core Business Areas, Objectives and Strategies

Goal 1: To Increase Investment in Energy and Mineral Resource Development in British Columbia

Goal 2: To Maintain High Environmental and Health and Safety Standards

Goal 3: To be a Responsive, Adaptable and Accountable Organization

Performance Measures and Targets by Core Business

Goal 1: To increase Investment in Energy and Mining Resource Development in British Columbia

Goal 2: To Maintain High Environmental and Health and Safety Standards

Goal 3: To Be a Responsive and Accountable Organization

Deregulation

The Ministry has actively participated in all aspects of Government's deregulation initiatives. The Ministry's baseline regulation count as of June 2001 was 17,814 and the target for June 2004 is 11,900, a reduction of 5,914 regulations. The Ministry will reduce its regulations by 11 per cent in the three fiscal years from 2002/03 to 2004/05, with the target to be achieved by June 2004.

In 2002/03, the Ministry eliminated 2,657 regulations or about 15 per cent of its count. This reduction has been achieved in part through revisions to the Health, Safety and Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia, which will permit the replacement of prescriptive by performance based regulations, and by strengthening the role of the Oil and Gas Commission as a single window regulatory agency.