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 feature on bureaucratic madness in the skilled trades.

At the last meeting of the Federal Cabinet, the law to reduce bureaucracy, announced for this year, was once again not passed . The skilled trades sector is disappointed and emphasizes that politicians should not waste any more time. "The reduction of bureaucracy, the significant reduction of documentation and reporting requirements, can no longer be postponed : The increasing burden is leading more and more tradespeople to conclude that they don't want to become self-employed in the first place, or that they want to give up and close their businesses, some of which they have run for decades," explains Holger Schwannecke.

Reducing bureaucracy is long overdue.

"The burden of bureaucracy is therefore not merely a bothersome side issue , but is increasingly undermining the entrepreneurial foundation of our economy with foreseeable fatal consequences for jobs, apprenticeships, and the continued existence of businesses," said the Secretary General of the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts . It is all the more frustrating that the long-awaited cabinet decision by the Federal Government on a law to reduce bureaucracy has once again not been presented. Relief from bureaucracy is urgently needed and long overdue for craft businesses.

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Bureaucratic burnout without antidote

Businesses are losing faith in politics. "Politicians and administrators must finally internalize this and seriously push forward with streamlining overregulation . When there's talk of bureaucratic burnout, but no effective remedy is provided, it shows once again that the problem isn't one of understanding, but a serious implementation problem . The fact that the fourth Bureaucracy Relief Act is still pending is unacceptable ."

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