Stop the Bureaucracy! Reducing administrative and regulatory burdens for MSP and citizens

Slovenia is working to reduce administrative and regulatory burdens. Both of them being part of smart regulation.

In October 2013, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted a single document to ensure better regulatory and business environment and increase competitiveness. More...

In July 2012, the Government adopted the renewed Action Programme for eliminating administrative barriers and reducing legislative burdens for 2012 and 2013. The basis for adopting the new Action Plan is the result of preliminary conclusions from analyzes performed on the basis of the original Programme for Reducing Administrative Burdens (2009) and a series of new initiatives by the expert and the interested public.
Strategic aim is to simplify the business and regulatory environment for the development of the economy and citizens' pleasure
The Programme comprises 269 measures, 136 of which were transferred or unrealized from 2011 and 133 measures additional to individual priority area

During the period from July to September 2012 was the first reporting to the competent ministries in their area realized 42 measures in the Action Programme, which accounted for 15.6 percent of all measures.

During the period from October 2012 to May 2013  in the second reporting by the line ministries in specific areas an additional 26 measures were realized. Together with the 42 measures realized in the first report additional 68 measures were implemented, representing 26% of all the realized measures from the revised program.

The renewed Action Programme for eliminating administrative barriers focuses on so-called “curative” aspects; nevertheless, prevention is also very important. In the process of adopting regulations, it is necessary to conduct an assessment of impacts, find the best solutions, and communicate with the public and key stakeholders.

The greatest emphasis is put on the process of unburdening the environment and spatial planning, the wider area of labour law, cohesion (drawing on European funds), finance (taxes and excise duties, as well as other duties) and the economy (status related legal affairs, and business or financial reports).

The Ministry of Justice and Public Administration manages, coordinates and harmonises the implementation of the Action Programme, and also ensures that agents at individual ministries (i.e. members of coordinating and steering inter-ministerial working group) implement the measures as stipulated in the Action Programme in accordance with the adopted decisions.

European level

Also at the European level, activities aimed at the elimination of administrative barriers are being performed to ensure the conditions for the effective operation of the internal market and tools leading to the achievement of the mid- and long-term objectives of the Lisbon Strategy (and the following EU 2020 agenda) The Commission has thus prepared a programme for reducing administrative burdens by 25% by 2012. The general objective to reduce the burdens by 25 per cent is a joint objective, which can be achieved only on the basis of a shared responsibility and common endeavour of Member States and European institutions. For the purpose of the Action Programme implementation, measures for simplification deriving from priority areas were prepared and adopted at the European level.

This programme binds not only the Commission, but all Member States, since administrative burdens derive from national legislation as well. In addition to its endeavours to reduce administrative barriers in European legislation, the Commission monitors and encourages the measurement of administrative costs, and the elimination of administrative barriers in all Member States.