Less bureaucracy for entrepreneurs: Parliament reduces procedures for permissive acts

Procedures for obtaining 26 permissive acts will be simplified after Parliament voted today, in the first reading, on the bill that aims to optimize them.

The project was presented in plenary by PAS deputy Dorian Istratii and aims to reduce the bureaucratic burden on economic agents, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.


“With this bill, we come to save time for entrepreneurs from the 63,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. According to the estimated calculations, the total time savings could be at least 70,000 hours per year, which translates into an administrative benefit of millions of lei. Previously, 33 acts were either eliminated or transformed into non-permissive procedures, and the procedures for issuing 53 permissive acts were simplified, totaling 86 adjusted acts. It is a significant result, but still insufficient to achieve our goals. To fully achieve the target set in the Growth Plan 2025-2027, it is necessary to eliminate at least 20 permissive acts and review at least 80 acts, in accordance with better regulation principles and EU norms. In this context, an urgent and systemic intervention is required to continue the process of optimizing administrative procedures. The proposed measures aim to: reduce the time required to issue permissive acts; extend their validity period; reduce the number of requested acts and procedures; transfer the responsibility of obtaining documents from the entrepreneur to the competent public authorities, where possible. The bill proposes amendments to 23 laws in specific fields. These measures will increase administrative efficiency, reduce the issuance time, and extend the validity period of permissive acts,” the quoted source said.


In the previous legislature, Parliament eliminated or transformed 33 acts into non-permissive procedures and simplified the issuance of 53 acts. In the context of the Reform Agenda in the Growth Plan 2025-2027, at least 20 acts are expected to be eliminated and 80 permissive acts reviewed, aligning national legislation with EU standards.