Better regulation policies, aiming to improve the quality of public responses, have been on the cutting edge since the end of the twentieth century, thanks to both internal and external pressures. Nevertheless, their concrete impact in Italy has been arguable, although many normative interventions have been made so far in that direction, and ad-hoc governing structures have been implemented. Despite the creation of parallel policies and governances, addressing, on the one hand, administrative simplification and, on the other, regulatory quality, many provisions have long remained on paper, and the administrative capacity to implement better regulation tools is still underdeveloped. In this regard, the once-in-a-lifetime chance provided by the NRRP could represent a game changer, because it is intended to, at once, bridge the structural and infrastructural gaps the Italian administration has long suffered from, and improve its administrative capacity by training public officers to meet the challenges of innovation and an increasingly complex world.