President of the Association of Chambers of Commerce asked the Prime Minister to promote a law that will not allow additional regulatory costs to be imposed on businesses - until the end of the crisis • "The desire to do business in Israel may be harmed"
Declaration of war against regulation.
Advocate Uriel Lin, president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, appealed to the prime minister to initiate a government decision banning the promotion of any regulation that would impose additional costs on the business sector, until the time the corona crisis passes.
Stormy demonstration by business owners in south Tel Aviv, 15.10.2020 // Photo: Police spokeswoman
Lynn notes that there are currently three major regulatory initiatives at stake that place a heavy burden on businesses: applying the deposit law to large beverage containers, which involves significant additional costs to the business sector;
The initiative of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to extend the Bags Law not only to large retailers but to all retail stores in Israel;
And a bill to record all calls in a remote transaction, keep them for two years and retrieve them according to customer requirements.
"The initiators of the law do not understand the regulatory burden that the law imposes on the entire business sector and also on the legal system," says Lynn.
The Association of Chambers of Commerce, on the other hand, calls for the implementation of the government's decision of October 2014, according to which it was obligatory to reduce the regulatory burden in Israel by 25% by the end of 2020.
According to Lynn, "This is one of the most glaring paradoxes in the country as an example of systems madness. While the country is pouring huge sums of money into the business sector and the unemployed to deal with the worst economic crisis since its inception - regulators are not silent. "The number of unemployed has reached an unprecedented peak. They are interested in one and only one thing - to justify their existence by creating another regulatory burden that is directly burdened on the business sector and gives rise to new costs, to make it difficult to do business in Israel. Regulators must not be allowed to destroy the business sector."