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Site Autorisations

• Simplifying licences and permits
• Inventory and evaluation
• Anne de Chambrier
• State Secretariat for Economic Affairs,
• Switzerland

OCDE, High level regional seminar on
 Administrative Simplification 
Cairo, 21.06.2007
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An effort with two aims !
Inventory  Licences and permits 
Administrative simplification
E-government
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Plan

• I INVENTORY in 1998  all permits by national
  laws
• Definition
• Goal and steps
• Internet site
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Experiences with federal and cantonal offices
• II EVALUATION in 2005
• Government mandate
• Results

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Five types of state interventions
E) Exception limited quantity/ e.g. due to
market failure or political choice A)
Authorization unlimited quantity/ preserving a
level of quality and security N) Notification
duty same as A, but with no waiting period
(silence is consent) P) Prescriptions legal
standards to be respected / control
afterwards I ) Information duty making
information available (e.g. quality
label)
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Definition
Authorization procedure  Mandatory submission
to an authority generally related to an economic
activity requiring explicit or implicit approval
by the said authority

• Exception concession, licence, quota,
  exceptional authorization, numerus clausus
• Authorization authorization to practice,
  permit, patent, certificate
• Notification duty registration

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Inventory 1998-2004

• Basic goal
• Reducing administrative paperwork for companies
• (request made by the Swiss Parliament)
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• Procedure
• Inventory gt contact with 34 federal offices
  out of 50 gt contact with several cantons
  gt first analysis and some 40 measures
• Creation of the Internet site (by-product)

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Situation in 2005

• All licences and permits (federal legislation)
• 345 permits at the federal level
• 160 permits at the cantonal level
• Cantonal permits carried out at the cantonal
  level

gt 2005 report Authorizations Present situation
and trends 1998-2004
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Permits view by main sectors
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Internet site background

• (creation)
• 2003 1st content update
• site development links on a legal basis and
  through forms
• Increase of 160 permits by the cantons
• new concept and design
• http//autorisations.pmeinfo.ch
• 2nd update 2005 report

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Site Advantages / Disadvantages

• User
• Portal  licences and permits  (by key word)
• Information level around 10-15 fields
• Communication level contact tel. / e-mail / web
  site
• transaction level online forms (30)
• - Risk of obsolete information

Administration Ease of evaluation and
international comparisons Direct access for
updates possible (by office/by canton) -
Regular updates necessary (1-2 years) - SECO
depends of the offices for the content of the
files
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Experience with federal offices

• 34 offices involved
• What works well today
• Regular updates
• The procedure is known and appreciated
• More difficult
• Identifying new authorizations
• Evaluating the usefulness of the authorization
• Justifying the role of SECO by the federal offices

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Experiences with the cantons

• 26 cantons
• 2 cantons have not provided information
• Minimal information on cantonal files
  (law/contact)
• Differences in application (according to the
  cantons)
• Examples of cantonal sites
• Zurich
• http//www.bewilligungen.zh.ch (one-stop shop for
  permits)
• http//www.workpermits.zh.ch (site for
  work-permits)
• Vaud
• http//www.camac.vd.ch/ (site for building
  authorizations)

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EVALUATION of licenses permits

• Following the 2005 report,
• The Government decided in 2005 to
• gt Eliminate 20 of the authorizations

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Evaluation method
1st stage postulate Eliminate all
authorizations that have been granted less than
50 times a year 3 questions 1) If so, way to
follow 2) If not, justification according to
criterias 3) If gt50x/year, can the procedure be
improved?
2nd stage Detailed analysis of all the most
frequent authorizations (lt5,000/year) through
SECO
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Evaluation Question 2

• Criterias justifying the continuation of the
  authorization
• Multiple choices
• 1 (44) public interest (insufficient subsequent
  control)
• 2 (31) granting of a specific right
• 3 (10) legitimization before a heavy investment
• 4 (17) exemption from a measure/ban
• (10) possibility to appeal/opposition by a third
  party
• (33) easier legal action in case of an offence
• ( 9) confirmation of an administrative law
• (30) demands of international law
• (24) others

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Evaluation Question 3

• Criteria for improving authorizations
• 1 Speeding up procedures               
• Co-ordinating procedures         
• Optimisation of legal measures  
• Easing procedures (e.g E gt A gt N gt P gt
  I) ) 
• Use of ICT / NPM (customer orientation)

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Permits at the federal level
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Permits at the cantonal level
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Evaluation result

• Result in 2006
• 15 of licences and permits
• were eliminated or simplified!

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An effort with two aims !
Inventory  licences and permits 
Administrative simplification
E-government

• Transparency, free of charge, information 24h a
  day
• On-line forms
• Ease of international comparisons

• Reduce the administrative load on companies
• promote the free market economy
• Simplify tasks inside the federal administration

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Challenge

• Propose  one-stop shops where each provider can
  complete all administrative procedures relating
  to his activity, in particular authorizations by
  electronic means.
• (conforms to Art. 6 of the project of the EU
  directive on services)

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Thank you for your attention !
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Administrative simplification useful links
Site des autorisations http//autorisations.pmei
nfo.ch Mesures dallègement administratif
http//www.evd.admin.ch/themen/00129/00419/index.h
tml?langfrsprungmarke1_20 Questionnaire et
article Évaluation des autorisations
2006 http//www.seco.admin.ch/themen/00374/00459
/00461/index.html?langfr Publication SECO
(autorisations 2005-06 / professions
réglementées) http//www.seco.admin.ch/dokumentat
ion/publikation/00004/00018/index.html?langfr
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ail suisse E-gov et Guichet créateur (pour fonder
entreprise online) http//www.ch.ch et
http//www.pmeadmin.ch La stratégie E-gov en
Suisse (avec lien sur Evanti.ch)
http//www.isb.admin.ch/intranet/egovernment/index
.html?langfr