OEO Ontology

Overview / Open Energy Ontology / Class - policy instrument
Label: policy instrument

Definition:
A policy instrument is an action specification of an organisation (e.g. a government) that promotes transformative measures.

Sub classes:
Definition:
An economic instrument is a policy instrument that creates monetary (price) incentives to stimulate transformative measures.

Definition:
An education instrument is a policy instrument that aims at teaching the necessary understanding and skills to specific groups of people so that these are enabled to perform specific transformative measures.

Definition:
An information instrument is a policy instrument that aims at providing knowledge to persons and/or institutions to stimulate transformative measures.

Definition:
A regulatory instrument is a policy instrument that stipulates rules made by a government (=institution) to control the way something is done.

Definition:
A voluntary agreement instrument is a policy instrument that uses voluntary instruments between a government (institution) and one or more private institutions. The agreement's goal is to ensure transformative measures by the participating private institutions.

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Definition:
A directive information entity that describes an action the bearer will take.