Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Apart from the energy crisis, the flood of regulations has developed into the biggest obstacle for the industry in the opinion of the trade. “There is constantly more bureaucracy and it is constantly becoming more difficult to deal with it – we are paralyzing the country with it,” warned the state crafts president Rainer Reichhold in the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” (Tuesday).
He speaks for 130,000 companies in the country with usually five to ten employees. “Every entrepreneur tells me, regardless of the industry, that he spends too much time at his desk with bureaucratic regulations.” The owners of smaller companies in particular should be able to concentrate more on the core of their business instead of familiarizing themselves with increasingly complex regulations and permanent documentation requirements. There would be “urgently a mucking out necessary”.
Reichhold continued: “We have to rethink the whole system: What kind of bureaucracy is absolutely necessary in this state to make it work?” Otherwise an overorganization will develop that can no longer be dismantled. The association president referred to dozens of documented examples from the trade with an acute need for action. “Nevertheless, nothing happens,” he complained. “We can’t talk about any significant progress.”
The demands are explosive in view of the reorganization of the regulatory control council by the green-black state government after the old council was dissolved in December. The panel of experts had been advising the government on avoiding and reducing bureaucracy since 2018.
