The federal government wants to relieve the economy of bureaucracy. According to media reports, 28 concrete measures are planned – such as digital controls at the airport or the end of the classic registration form in hotels.
At the end of their cabinet meeting in Meseberg, according to media reports, the traffic light coalition also wants to adopt key points for a law that is intended to significantly reduce the bureaucracy, especially for companies.
It is about the so-called bureaucracy relief law – a promise that the traffic light parties have also laid down in the joint coalition agreement. According to Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann, small and medium-sized companies should primarily benefit from the planned law. The FDP politician warned that the complicated procedures in the “tangle of bureaucracy” are currently a real reason for the economy not to make any investments.
Shorter obligation to keep receipts
According to media reports, the cabinet wants to decide on a total of 28 individual measures to reduce bureaucracy. According to the “Handelsblatt”, one point is a reduction in the commercial and tax retention periods for accounting documents. Instead of the previous ten years, companies should only have to archive such documents for eight years.
According to the newspaper report, certain information obligations for certain sectors should also be reduced if the traffic light agrees with the key points of the Ministry of Justice. As the news portal “The Pioneer” reports, the economy should be relieved by more than two billion euros with the help of the proposed measures.
More digitally than on paper
The tourism industry should also benefit from the planned law, according to the “Handelsblatt”. For example, the hotels where the requirement to fill out a registration form for every German guest should no longer apply.
And at airports, for example, controls could be made easier: if the traveler agrees, the data stored in the passport chip is transmitted to air carriers. Control processes could be handled digitally and contactlessly, including check-in, baggage drop-off and access control to the security area and before boarding.
More digital technology should also be allowed for “needs under civil law”: For example, the termination of a rental agreement should also be able to be transmitted electronically in the future.