An article published today by a Philippines Online Journal draws attention to a seemingly advanced system to simplify business red tape. The National Single Window (NSW) was set up by a Presidential Executive Order and allows a single submission and accelerated processing of applications for licenses, permits and other authorizations required prior to undertaking a trade transaction. It already serves as a link between 40 Agencies and their public. See their very informative site.
But what is really special about this single window is its international dimension: it stems from the agreement to establish an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 whose mission is to develop a single market and production base that is stable, prosperous and highly competitive and economically integrated with effective facilitation for trade and investment, thereby forming the ASEAN Single Window (ASW). The ASEAN Single Window is the environment where NSWs of member countries operate and integrate. Activities include exchange of information of ASEAN Customs Declaration Document and Certificate of Origin under the Common Effective Preferential Treatment (CEPT) scheme of ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). The impetus for these reforms is supported by regular meetings of the ASEAN Regulatory Reform Dialogue (see last meeting on 27 July 2011).
A 2009 short report, published by APEC, presumably as a spin-off of the OECD-APEC Cooperative Initiative on Regulatory Reform, draws a comprehensive picture of achievements and shortcomings of Regulatory Reform in the Philippines.
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