Ignacio Gafo is known to BR experts for his presentation in Stockholm Bertelsman conference on the Spanish results in cutting red tape (caution 30Mb).
As project coordinator, he recently informed us about the final report of the operation, which is online on the Spanish confederation of employers site. It is only in Spanish for the moment, but a translation will soon be available. In the meantime, here are a few specific traits of the Spanish SCM (unofficial summary):
- AB measurement was delivered by way of a joint programme between the government and two business organisations (employers and small business) to implement the 4/5/2007 national reduction target of 30% by2012 and the 20/6/2008 action programme; a network of 130 companies, set up for the project, was instrumental in gathering the data and supplying reduction ideas (good consultation);
- it addresses six priority areas: company law, tax, statistics, public procurement, environment, employment relations/working conditions. (defined by reference to the EU Action plan priority areas);
- measurement was immediately followed by the elaboration of 125 reduction measures, assessed as saving companies €3.3 bn(0.3% of GDP), which supplement the 159 measures already decided in council of ministers; were noted as particular irritants the stats information obligations;
- the 85 pages report seems to contain all the usual components of a methodical SCM operation; general conclusions (p.61) include i.a.: business may have perceived a slight reduction of burden recently, but newly introduced online procedures have added new information obligations; administrations need to coordinate their requirements; in spite of the simplification effort, growing complexity seems inevitable; various methodological improvements are necessary;
- a new project is underway to review 15 additional priority areas.
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