Action Plan to reduce administrative charges
This Plan is aimed at reducing the administrative charges paid by self-employed workers and companies to the Crown by 30%. Thus, the resources that companies have traditionally devoted to activities that do not have much to do with production may be now used to carry out strictly production-related activities, and it will also reduce the waiting time for companies to start or carry out those activities.
This Plan has a twofold purpose:
- Eliminating redundant, obsolete, reiterative and unnecessary administrative procedures from the regulations in force.
- Acting preventively with regards to future regulations in order to avoid the imposition of new administrative duties both on citizens and companies.
Beneficiaries
Citizens and companies involved in Crown procedures will benefit from the reduction of the procedural costs resulting from a requirement reduction; they will also benefit from the possibility to carry out many of those procedures without having to go to a Crown office; and they will also benefit from the elimination of the corresponding procedure in those cases it is considered unjustified. According to the estimates of the European Commission, the rigorous application of this Plan might result in an additional 1.5% growth in the Spanish Gross Domestic Product.
Development
The Plan was approved of by the Council of Ministers last 20 June 2008. Two sets of measures intended to reduce administrative charges have already been approved of and they are going to result in the simplification of 81 procedures, helping both citizens and companies save time and costs.
