Overview

• A mid-2025 report by the Sächsischer Normenkontrollrat finds new compliance costs of €11.5 million against €2.3 million in savings, creating a €9.2 million net regulatory burden
• Since 2016, annual compliance burdens have increased every year without net relief, pushing total costs to €177 million
• The Freistaat Sachsen is piloting digital signatures for roughly 3,800 administrative procedures to accelerate processing
• Chair Birgit Munz recommends scrapping proof and reporting requirements, lowering standards, reducing control density and conducting practical pre-tests of new legislation
• Economic and municipal stakeholders warn that without clear political targets and streamlined grant procedures, workforce and local governments will remain strained