Bureaucracy: ZVK welcomes simplifications in the automotive trade

The automotive trade welcomes the Federal Council's adoption of the Bureaucracy Reduction Ordinance. The measures enacted therein represent an important step toward increasing efficiency and reducing costs.

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The Federal Council has the Bureaucracy Reduction Ordinance The regulation supplements the Bureaucracy Reduction Act IV, which passed the Federal Council in October. It contains 32 legal changes, which are intended to relieve the economy by 420 million euros annually.

The measures aim to Digitalization to promote Notification and reporting obligations and simplify procedures. This includes raising the reporting thresholds for capital and payment transactions in foreign trade, Simplifications in food law and the pioneering Abolition of double testing of measuring instruments in technical vehicle inspection.

Increased efficiency and reduced costs

The latter measure provides numerous workshops financial and operational relief, so the Central Association of the Automotive Trade (ZVK). "This decision was long overdue and significantly relieves the burden on the automotive industry," says the ZVK-chairman Detlef Peter Grün"After more than ten years of campaigning for the abolition of double auditing, this decision is an important step toward increasing efficiency and reducing costs."

According to this, a so-called "Use exception" in the Measurement and Calibration Ordinance The annual calibration requirement for pressure gauges will be abolished. This means that, with the entry into force of the amending regulation, only a regular calibration of the pressure gauges According to the Road Traffic Licensing Regulations, the decision will result in additional costs for the approximately 3.400 workshops in Germany that are approved for safety inspections, Central Association of the German Motor Vehicle Industry annually significant cost savings. 

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