“Check for consequences of bureaucracy”
Regulatory Control Council advises caution with the heating law
9/4/2023 1:58 am
With the Regulatory Control Council, the federal government has set up its own body that examines laws for undesirable bureaucratic side effects. His boss is now warning of Habeck’s heating law. After a heated argument in the traffic light coalition, this is now being discussed in the Bundestag.
The chairman of the federal government’s Regulatory Control Council, Lutz Goebel, fears there will be a great deal of bureaucratic ballast in the heating law planned by the traffic light coalition. The project should therefore be checked again for its bureaucratic consequences, Goebel told the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”: “There are great uncertainties here and I appeal to the law to be checked again carefully in the parliamentary process.”
Goebel acknowledged that the Building Energy Act is a very comprehensive law. After all, it affects the economy and citizens alike. “It takes a lot of effort.” However, there is also a high benefit. “In the long run, that could offset the effort,” Goebel told the newspaper. This week, the Bundestag is to discuss the traffic light heating law. The traffic light coalition had previously argued violently for weeks about the law from the house of Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck.
The Regulatory Control Council advises the federal government on the bureaucratic burden of legislation. The expert criticized the fact that the overall costs of dealing with bureaucracy in Germany continue to rise. “We are seeing a sharp increase in costs. Banks and insurance companies now have around seven percent of sales, and smaller companies three percent that have to be spent on the whole effort.”
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Goebel explained that there are also a large number of small companies that do not know all the laws and regulations. “If they are then prosecuted for it, this can lead to economic difficulties. This also applies to permits that have not come for years,” said the head of the Regulatory Control Council of the newspaper. Unfortunately, one is still a long way from halving the length of the procedure.
Goebel also emphasized that the bureaucratic effort and the follow-up costs of laws had increased again at the beginning of the legislative period. “More and more is being built on existing laws.” In order for bureaucracy to be reduced, Goebel demanded that “every burdensome rule should be relieved twice as much by the end of the respective legislative period at the latest”.