Brnabic announces further reduction of business administrative costs

(Ana Brnabic) The project e-PAPER – the reduction of administrative charges for the business sector – will improve the business environment by reducing administrative costs by a minimum of 15 to 20% by 2021, it was said on Friday, April 27, 2018, at the presentation of the project, which was attended by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.

e-PAPER is a multiannual project of the Government of Serbia which aims to list, optimize, make publicly available and digitalize all administrative procedures and other terms of doing business. So far, around 2,500 administrative procedures have been listed, uniformly described, entered into an electronic database and verified, and initial suggestions for the simplification of the process have also been prepared.

As the project continues, the aim will be achieved through simplification or abolition of unnecessary administrative procedures and other terms of doing business, as well as by establishing an electronic portal, that is, The Single Public Register of Administrative Procedures and Other Terms of Doing Business, which will feature all the information about administrative procedures and other terms of doing business in the Republic of Serbia, it is said. The end goal is for all administrative procedures to be optimized and carried out electronically.

The importance of this reform was also discussed at the Friday conference by Head of EU Delegation to Serbia, Sem Fabrizi, and Ambassador of Great Britain to the Republic of Serbia, Denis Keefe.

So far, 84 public administration institutions have become involved in the project on the level of the republic. The Secretariat for Public Policies is the coordinator of the project, and the Ministry of Economy proposes the legal framework for its implementation. The realization of the project has so far also been supported by the British government's Good Governance Fund (GGF), the European Union through the IPA pre-accession funds and the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ.

Vlada Republike Srbije

GIZ Beograd

Republički sekretarijat za javne politike

Ministarstvo privrede Republike Srbije

e Paper

reduction of business administrative costs

Ana Brnabic

business administrative costs

The Single Public Register of Administrative Procedures and Other Terms of Doing Business

terms of doing business in Serbia

Sem Fabrizi

Embassy of Great Britain in the Republic of Serbia

Denis Keefe

Good Governance Fund

GGF

GIZ

German Agency for International Cooperation