More than 200 administrative procedures, out of the 250 presented as "essential to the daily life of the French", have now been digitized.
The Ministry of Transformation and the Public Service indicates on Monday that 212 procedures (85% of the total) can be done online, or thirty more than during a previous progress report carried out in October 2020 .
The procedures identified by the ministry concern many areas, from the management of withholding tax to the request for administrative authorization to cut timber, including the vote of French people living abroad.
By the end of the year, Minister Amélie de Montchalin hopes to make ten additional procedures available online.
The government aims to reach the 250 mark by the end of the Macron five-year term, in the spring of 2022.
Progress report on the Government's commitments - Digitization of the 250 essential steps in the daily life of the French https://t.co/zPUPffuWKz
- Amélie de Montchalin (@AdeMontchalin) September 6, 2021
Among the most difficult steps to digitize, the minister quoted Monday at a press conference, "those which concern many administrations, such as building permits".
For the next few months, Amélie de Montchalin has made access for people with disabilities to essential procedures a “priority”.
Only 15% of online procedures are accessible to them, a rate that the government wants to increase to 39% by the end of 2021. The ministry also wants to facilitate the identification of users when they access online services. online and "inform citizens in advance of their rights and the steps they have to take".
"The government's strategy is not at all digital"
The digitization of administrative procedures is part of the France Relance plan, presented by the government in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. Of the 500 million dedicated to interministerial tools, digital transformation and online procedures, seven have been invested to date by the ministry “to finance and support the quality of the digitization of administrative procedures”. "The government's strategy is not at all digital", however, underlined Amélie de Montchalin. “In parallel with our digitization efforts, we are putting counters back in the territories, via the France Services program,” she insisted.