The executive aims to “streamline and accelerate the licensing, authorization, and public contract regimes, eliminating excessive preliminary opinions (whether binding or not),” and “favoring post-implementation supervision while adopting tacit approval whenever possible and penalizing unjustified rejections,” as outlined in the document.
Under the leadership of Luís Montenegro, the government also plans to introduce mechanisms ensuring that “a lack of clarity concerning a licensing process nullifies certain requirements, offering citizens and businesses predictability and security in their investments.”
The Government Program intends to “review and simplify the rules applicable to companies and social institutions and equipment,” from their creation and registration, aiming to eliminate “acts required for their activity and seeking simplification, digitalization, and elimination of redundancies.”
The document states the Government intends to “also combine process re-engineering projects conducted by each ministry with an open process,” to gather “contributions from civil society” to identify and prepare “de-bureaucratization measures and elimination or simplification of processes or administrative requirements.”
The executive also targets the review and acceleration of the public administration’s financial control system, “replacing the prior control paradigm with concurrent and successive control” and focusing the Court of Auditors’ jurisdiction “on specific control and financial accountability.”
Other measures include reviewing and accelerating administrative and tax justice, creating single points of physical and digital contact for companies and citizens, promoting a simplified and effective relationship with the administration, encouraging active collaboration among various stakeholders to adopt solutions ensuring swift project approvals, among others.
There is a plan to “create a public portal with enforcement statistics by entity, potentially associated with incentive systems,” and to develop the “bureaucratic impact assessment tests in the legislative process of the Government and, ideally, the Parliament and independent regulators, before approving new legislative or regulatory measures, with the possibility of rejection if the impact is negative.”
The XXV Constitutional Government Program, resulting from the May 18 legislative elections won by the AD (PSD/CDS) coalition, was delivered today to the Assembly of the Republic by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Carlos Abreu Amorim.
The Government program was approved in the Council of Ministers on Thursday and will be discussed in the Assembly of the Republic on Tuesday and Wednesday.
