Buschmann in the ntv “early start”
“Brussels also has to step on the bureaucratic brakes”
May 17, 2024, 10:29 a.m
The Federal Minister of Justice is celebrating his bureaucracy relief law and at the same time has to defend it. Because bureaucracy is on everyone’s lips and is clearly identified as a major obstacle to growth. However, containing them is anything but child’s play.
Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has estimated the effects of all the federal government’s efforts to reduce bureaucracy at three billion euros. In addition to the new bureaucracy relief law with around 950 million euros, this also includes the growth opportunities law and innovations in accounting law, said the FDP politician. That is three times as much as the largest bureaucracy reduction package to date.
“If the first step is more than three times as big as the largest we have had before, then that is a strong start,” said Buschmann on ntv’s “Early Start” program. The Minister of Justice countered the criticism from business because of the still high bureaucratic burden with the approval of the National Regulatory Control Council. “If such strong voices for reducing bureaucracy say that this is a good bonus, then we should not downplay it,” stated the Federal Minister of Justice.
The lives of citizens will also be debureaucratized. Buschmann called the millions of hotel registration forms. These had to be filled out, then packed in a box and then disposed of at some point in a data protection-compliant manner. Save that for the future. Employment contracts will be able to be concluded digitally. In general, 100% digital workflows would become possible.
Buschmann: Most of the bureaucracy comes from Brussels
Nevertheless, reducing bureaucracy is a race with new regulations and therefore new bureaucratic burdens. On the occasion of the first discussion of the Bureaucracy Relief Act in the Bundestag, Buschmann called for more efforts to curb bureaucracy at the EU level. As a minister, he could not reduce bureaucracy in federal law as quickly as it is being reproduced in Brussels. “But we also have to get to the point where we put the brakes on bureaucracy in Brussels.”
Because many German laws are requirements from Brussels. According to the Federal Ministry of Justice, 57 percent of the so-called compliance costs and thus the bureaucratic burdens come from European guidelines. “That is why we are not only reducing bureaucracy in federal law, but we are now also working together with our French friends to significantly reduce the pace of bureaucracy production in Brussels,” announced Buschmann.