The legislative initiative to reduce the number of inspection bodies was passed by Parliament in the final reading in its first sitting of the autumn session on September 23, IPN reports.
The number of inspection boides was decreased from 33 to 11. There will also be five independent regulators. The goals are to reduce the administrative burden on the business sector, to exclude situations of abuse on entrepreneurs and to optimize state inspections and make them more transparent.
The inspection bodies that remained are: the National Food Safety Agency, the Agency for Market and Nonfood Products Surveillance, the Inpectorate for Technical Surveillance, the Public Health Agency, the Inspectorate for Environment Protection, the Customs Service, the State Main Tax Inspectorate, the Transport Administration Agency, the National Center for Personal Data Protection, the National Accreditation Center, and the National Quality Assurance Agency for Professional Education.
The five regulators are: the National Agency for Energy Regulation, the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology, the Audit Office, the Broadcasting Coordination Council, and the Competition Council.
The new law bans carrying out state inspections during the first three years of work of a business entity. It envisions the creation of dispute settling councils within all the inspection bodies, by involving representatives of the business community, and the shortening of the list of motives for which a suprise inspection can be carried out. If the institutions perform such an inspection, they will have to preliminarily issue an argumentation note.
