Standards, laws, decrees: the ordeal of small business owners

2023-06-07T16:52:48.890Z

Highlights: More than 400,000 standards are issued every year in France. The country is second in the world in terms of number of standards issued. The European Commission has called for a reduction in the number of laws and decrees issued in the next five years. The Commission has also called for the creation of a national standard for the use of standards in the country. The number of rules and regulations issued by the European Commission is expected to be reduced in the coming years. In the last five years, there have been more than 100,000 changes in the rules and regulation of standards.

More than 400,000 standards hinder businesses at a cost of 28 billion euros.

Laws, decrees, ordinances... Every year, the texts abound, to the chagrin of companies, which no longer find their way around. The France excels in this area. With some 400,000 standards, it ranks second among the countries with the most complex bureaucracy, according to TMF's Global Business Complexity Index 2022, just behind Brazil and ahead of Colombia, Mexico and Turkey.

And yet all governments have tackled the issue of simplification. Nicolas Sarkozy established in 2010 a moratorium on standards, François Hollande, a Council for Simplification in 2013, and Elisabeth Borne declared in September 2022 that it was necessary to "identify the cases in which the use of a text is not necessary and write our laws, ordinances and decrees more simply, more soberly". If last year, normative production decreased compared to 2021, 2022 still saw the promulgation of 43 laws, 45 ordinances, 1786 decrees and 8747 orders, according to the secretariat...

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Source: lefigaro

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