Fifteen authorities that issue authorizations, licenses, permits and other authorizing documents, including ministries and agencies, are obliged to create one-stop shops. The measure for another two authorities is for the time being only a recommendation, IPN reports, quoting a Government decision.

“At the first stage, the one-stop shops will issue 57 authorizing documents. The procedure is simple. The entrepreneurs ask for a certificate. If they need additional confirmation or notices from other authorities for obtaining it, the problem is solved by the interaction between the institution to which the economic entity applied and other institutions (over the Internet). The time spent and costs incurred by the applicant will decrease,” explained Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar.

Thus, the applicants will be issued with the following documents through one-stop shops:  special authorization for transport, technical construction authorization, sanitary-veterinary authorization, authorization for making drugs, waste management certificate, transit permit, certificate for the registration of new food products, and others.

“On the last 100 meters, we received an application from the Tax Inspectorate, which asked excluding the entrepreneur’s patent from the list of authorizing documents issued this way. We understand the fears of our colleagues from the Inspectorate and from the National Social Insurance House, but must take into account the fact that 17,000 citizens are waiting for the procedures to be simplified and for the bureaucratic barriers to be removed. We will yet hold discussions to reach a reasonable compromise so as not to discriminate against the economic entities,” stated Valeriu Lazar.

In a news conference at IPN, the National Participation Council warned that the legislation on the implementation of the ‘one-stop shop’ principle in the entrepreneurial activity is not in accordance with the modern approach to such a method. It recommended the Government to extend this practice to all the authorizations, licenses and certificates and to make the Regulatory Impact Assessment for these documents obligatory. The Council considers that the process of setting up one-stop shops must be stepped up and synchronized with other related initiatives and that a zero tolerance approach to authorizing documents must exist outside the conception of one-stop shop so as to make these shops a known, used and appreciated instrument among businesses.