State government decides to reduce bureaucracy

With a package to reduce bureaucracy and accelerate business activity, the North Rhine-Westphalian state government aims to ease the burden on businesses and citizens. It is intended to improve the state's business environment and stimulate investment.

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

North Rhine-Westphalia wants to reduce bureaucracy and speed up planning and approval procedures. To this end, the state cabinet has now Debureaucratization and acceleration package The stated aim is to site conditions in NRW for the economy. In addition, the administration should work more efficiently. The package includes cross-departmental Measures that, according to State government cover all areas. This also includes accelerating procurement procedures and expanding digital formats and platforms. Further measures will be decided in a next step.

"With the additional package adopted today, we are acting boldly and on our own authority to reduce further bureaucratic burdens. Through the many measures to reduce bureaucracy, we want to make life easier for our companies and the citizens of our country," said Minister President Hendrik Wust (CDU). He speaks of the most comprehensive package in many years. "Fast planning and approvals are a Basic requirement for good location conditions and thus for investments. This package contributes to significant contribution."

"The adopted package provides for the introduction of Practical checks and a multitude of legal measures to simplify and accelerate approval procedures, which we urgently need. We are also expanding the state government's digital offerings and abolishing reporting requirements for businesses. We are hereby setting a important impulse for our business location and will be simpler, faster and overall less bureaucratic," adds Economics Minister Mona Neunaur (Greens).

These measures are planned

• Deletion of reporting obligations
• Elimination of written form requirements
• Acceleration and relief of approval procedures
• Fast approval – model wind energy
• Practical checks
• Internal process optimizations
• Introduction "One in – one out"
• Temporary employment management
• Simplification of approval procedures for heavy goods and large-volume transport
• Development and expansion of digital formats and platforms for bundling approval processes
• Initiative to improve approval procedures for a climate-neutral industrial transformation
• Simplifications in the State Nature Conservation Act NRW
• Implementation of the BImSchG amendment: Use of scope for enforcement
• Acceleration of procurement procedures

"We welcome the fact that the country is speeding up the reduction of bureaucracy. The craft businesses suffer greatly under the extensive bureaucratic requirements," commented Berthold Schröder"In times of great challenges for the skilled trades and the entire economy due to decarbonisation, demographic change and digitalisation, it is important to act quickly in reducing bureaucracy. noticeable relief Therefore, it is a valuable signalthat the state government is looking at bureaucracy," says the President of the West German Chamber of Crafts. 

The package addresses many Suggestions from the trade "This includes the removal of reporting obligations for businesses to state authorities, the acceleration of approval procedures, but also the planned reversal of the burden of proof in the written form. It is also encouraging that the state intends to examine further measures and decide on them in a next step. This is the right way. To achieve noticeable relief, a continuous process of degradation steps."

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