Administrative simplification, understood as the reduction of the barriers and burdens derived from the bureaucratic activity of administrations, has been and is present in all Public Administrations, General State Administration, Autonomous Communities and Local Administration, as well as in international bodies such as the European Union or the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Adopting measures of reduction of administrative burdens economic activity is encouraged and encouraged, and simplify The relations of citizens and companies with the administrations.
Complying with the procedures established by a norm involves procedures, movements, the duty to keep documents or present data and certificates that, in some cases, are already in the hands of the Administration. There are procedures that have become unnecessary, and that can be eliminated. In others, the interoperability of data and the digitization of records allows citizens or companies not to have to present data or documents that can be shared directly between administrations.
To reduce the unnecessary administrative burden, work is done in three ways:
- Through one transversal policy, throughout the General Administration of the State, deployed in turn by the General Directorate of Public Governance: reduction of administrative burdens .
- Internally, with the application of methodologies for the simplification and reduction of burdens by the various ministries and agencies: Manual .
- With the direct collaboration of citizenship, through attention box, selecting "Reducing administrative burdens" in the "Subject" selection field.