Reducing bureaucracy: "The federal government must step on the gas"

The bakery trade welcomes the fact that the Federal Government is working on the fourth Bureaucracy Reduction Act, makes additional suggestions and calls for rapid implementation.

This article is part of the special feature on bureaucratic madness in the skilled trades.

The German government intends to pass a new law to reduce bureaucracy before the end of this legislative period . The baking industry welcomes this. From its perspective, businesses must be freed from excessive red tape. A government working group has presented 22 measures designed to provide relief for companies. These measures also incorporate proposals from the Central Association of the German Baking Trade.

The German Bakers' Association submitted proposals to the federal government last October. "The issue of excessive bureaucracy has reached the political sphere, and our suggestions and submissions are having an effect ," says Michael Wippler , President of the German Bakers' Association. "We expressly welcome the draft law on the Business Basic Data Register Act presented by Federal Minister of Economic Affairs Altmaier. This law would relieve companies of unnecessary duplicate data reporting as part of their statistical obligations."

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However, it is not yet satisfactory that the proposed measures largely lack concrete legal changes and often consist of general announcements or requests for review. "This urgently needs to be addressed," demands Managing Director Daniel Schneider . He emphasizes that, from the perspective of the baking trade, key proposals are missing, such as amendments to the Working Time Act and the introduction of a de minimis threshold for the obligation to issue receipts, or the relief measures for the baking trade also proposed by the Regulatory Control Council of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Source: Central Association of the German Bakery Trade