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.