Crafts criticize pending cabinet decision on bureaucracy relief law

The federal government had announced another bureaucracy reduction bill for this year. Now, the cabinet has once again failed to pass it. The skilled trades sector is disappointed.

This article is part of the special topic Bureaucratic madness in the craft industry

At the last meeting of the Federal Cabinet, the budget announced for this year was Bureaucracy Reduction Act erneut not adoptedThe trade is disappointed and stresses that politicians should not waste any more time. "The reduction of bureaucracy, the significant reduction of documentation and reporting requirements, no longer allows for any delay: Due to the increasing burden, more and more craftsmen and women are now coming to the conclusion that they do not want to become self-employed at all, or that they are giving up and closing down their businesses, some of which they have run for decades," explains Holger Schwannecke.

Reducing bureaucracy is long overdue.

"The bureaucratic burden is therefore not just a annoying side issue, but they is increasingly undermining the entrepreneurial foundation of our economy with foreseeable fatal consequences for jobs and training places and the continuation of businesses," said the Secretary General of the Central Association of German Crafts. It is all the more annoying that the long-awaited cabinet decision of the Federal government for a law to reduce bureaucracy has once again not been presented. Reducing bureaucracy is urgently needed and long overdue for craft businesses.

Bureaucratic burnout without antidote

Companies are losing trust in politics. "Politicians and administrators must finally internalize this and begin to reduce overregulation seriously push forwardWhen we talk about bureaucratic burnout, but at the same time no effective antidote is made available, this shows once again that it is not a matter of knowledge, but rather a serious implementation problem The fact that the Bureaucracy Relief Act IV is still pending is unacceptable."

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