BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Businesses in Germany complain about a lot of bureaucracy and have given bad news to the public administration. A survey found that a majority of 62% see administration as less efficient (46%), inefficient or not at all efficient. The long duration of planning and approval procedures is criticized.
This is the result of a company investigation by the Allensbach Institute for Opinion Testing on behalf of the Joint Committee of German Trade and Industry. This includes numerous associations.
“Insidious procedures cost companies money and competitiveness,” said industry president Siegfried Russwurm, chairman of the joint committee. To overcome the current crisis, German companies should be able to react quickly to rising energy and raw material costs and tight supply chains. “Slow planning and approval procedures are poison for a competitive position.”
For 65% of the companies surveyed, bureaucracy has also increased over the past seven years. “Germany can no longer afford an administration where scanning a form and submitting a PDF file counts as digitization,” Russwurm said. 65% of companies consider it very important that the digitization of administration in Germany make rapid progress./hoe/DP/stk
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