Orban: Debureaucratization must be done by reducing useless regulations

 

"We have to think from the citizen's perspective the whole institutional architecture and the whole process of simplification, of digitization. We have to make an analysis of the whole secondary legislation, besides the legislation itself, we have to have a very serious analysis of the secondary legislation, which is composed of Government's decisions, ministerial orders, order of the presidents of agencies," Ludovic Orban told Friday's third monthly meeting of the Interministerial Committee for Debureaucratization (DEBIRO).

 

He added that, unfortunately, an address sent by a director general or a secretary general often matters more than a text of law or a text of a Government's decision.

 

"The simplification process must be achieved by minimizing the regulations, especially the secondary regulations, of those procedures that are not necessary, that are done only to complicate the road that the citizen has to follow in order to obtain their rights, to benefit from a service," said Orban.

 

He added that things need to be regulated in terms of the relationship with legal entities, companies, non-governmental organizations, the liberal professions, so that they are "very simple, very clear, very easy to verify".

 

The Prime Minister stressed that, in addition to digitization, which is the "best treatment" to improve the relationship between public institutions and the citizen, debureaucratization solutions must also be considered for those who do not access the online environment.

 

During the event, the governmental portal simplificare.gov.ro was launched, intended to collect suggestions from citizens for the debureaucratization of the administration.