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Thuringia Submits First Bureaucracy Relief Bill as Landtag Begins Review

Committee review now focuses on whether the promised digital streamlining will deliver faster decisions.

Overview

  • The draft targets changes across 23 laws to reduce hurdles for businesses, municipalities and residents.
  • Measures include abolishing some objection procedures, enabling fully automated decisions, and applying a Once-Only data principle for user information.
  • The government proposes to standardize and digitize 172 state funding programs currently handled by 19 approval offices.
  • Municipalities would receive time-limited permission to pilot simpler procedures under a standard-experiment framework.
  • AfD and The Left attacked the plan during a tense first reading that was briefly paused at AfD’s request, while the government pledged to present such relief laws annually.