Boosting efficiency. Cutting red tape.

Germany is suffering from bureaucracy burnout. We are cutting through the maze of red tape. On 1 January 2025, key provisions of the Fourth Bureaucracy Reduction Act (BEG IV) will come into force, reducing the bureaucratic burden on both business and citizens. BEG IV is part of a package of measures that was agreed by the Federal Government in 2023 and is set to save our businesses a good 3.5 billion euros each year. This is the most comprehensive bureaucracy reduction programme in our country’s history. Nonetheless, further progress is clearly essential. That is why we remain committed to ongoing and systematic bureaucracy reduction. In future, there is to be a new Bureaucracy Reduction Act each year.

However, action at a national level is not enough on its own: more than half of the current bureaucratic burden comes from the EU. That is why, together with France, we have launched a European bureaucracy reduction initiative. We are seeking to implement a European bureaucracy cost check to ensure transparency and achieve improvements, and to reduce new reporting obligations to a minimum.