The government, autonomies and municipal councils will meet again in December to continue moving forward in the development of “Regime 18”, the proposal with which the Economy wants to streamline bureaucratic procedures and standardize requirements that companies need to operate in various communities. Representatives of the three administrations agreed yesterday to establish a starting point, during the Sectoral Conference held within the ministry led by Carlos Body. “We have set an ambitious roadmap to move forward, there will be a next meeting before the end of the year, where we can have a common diagnosis, to identify the barriers to eliminate,” announced the head of the Economy.
Corporio’s intention is to create an autonomous virtual community, which would serve as a space to simplify bureaucracy for companies that develop activities throughout Spain. Currently, the tangle of different procedures required by the different regions delays the deployment of some projects, something that the European Commission has repeatedly requested to be resolved. The objective pursued by Economía is that these companies do not have to apply for different permits – depending on the LACC in which they wish to operate – and can carry out their activity with complete autonomy. with a single official document.
This is not the first time that a government has tried to tackle this problem. The Executive chaired by Mariano Rajoy has already tried to solve this problem through a market unity law that ran into the framework of the powers of the autonomous communities, shortly after its promulgation. The rule ended up in court and its content was completely decaffeinated. “We can learn from this previous attempt that did not succeed due to a problem of competences, we want to avoid this problem by reversing the approach through the coordination and collaboration of all administrations”, Body said.
Moncloa has already announced that it will try to speed up the granting of certain permits, such as in the case of the construction of new housing – to accelerate the expansion of the real estate supply – or in the installation of charging stations for hybrid and electric cars. . The different regional regulations continue to create a bottleneck for the deployment of this type of projects. The long-term objective is extend this idea of a single market also to Portugalcreating an Iberian space that allows the exchange of investments and business. Minister Body has already started holding meetings with his Portuguese counterpart, Pedro Reis. “For us, it is essential to think about an integrated Iberian market, which will be particularly key for the regions bordering Portugal,” predicted the head of Economy.
