CELEX: 51990PC0058
Language: en
Date: 1990-03-02
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A POLICY OF ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION IN FAVOUR OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN THE MEMBER STATES

N o C 101/8                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                      21.4.90
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                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                   COMMISSION
               Amended proposal for a Council recommendation relating to the implementation of a policy of
               administrative simplification in favour of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Member
                                                            States ( l )
                                                       COM(90) 58 final
               (Submitted by the Commission on 8 March 1990 pursuant to Article 149 (3) of the EEC Treaty)
                                                         (90/C 101/14)
THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  lighten the administrative burden on business,             in
                                                                     particular small and medium-sized enterprises;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community and in particular Article 235
thereof,                                                             Whereas such action must equally be assured                 by
                                                                      national, regional and local administrations;
Having regard to the opinion of the Parliament and the
Economic and Social Committee,                                       Whereas exchange of information and comparison of
                                                                      experiences between the Member States, in particular as
Whereas the Council has adopted the following resol-
                                                                      organized in the Community context, have facilitated
utions:
                                                                      the establishment of a global view of the measures
— resolution of the 3rd of November 1986 on the                       implemented in each Member State;
     action programme for small and medium-sized enter-
     prises and the declaration on administrative burdens
                                                                      Whereas such an approach leads to a strengthening of
     on business,
                                                                      this policy and, as a result, to the stimulation of the spirit
— resolution of the 22nd of December 1986 on an                       of enterprise, to the strengthening of market forces and
     action programme for growth and employment,                      to the promotion of growth and employment,
— resolution of the 30th of June 1988 on the
     improvement of the business environment and action               RECOMMENDS TO THE MEMBER STATES:
     to promote the development of enterprises, especially
     small    and    medium-sized      enterprises   in the
     Community,                                                        1.    to implement programmes of administrative simpli-
                                                                      fication in favour of busineses, involving their
Whereas the Commission has adopted the following                       governments, parliaments and regional and local
communications:                                                        institutions;
— communication         on an enterprises policy for the
     Community,                                                        2.    to ensure that the above arrangements relate to
                                                                       simplification both of new legislative proposals and of
— communication on administrative simplification in the                existing legislation;
     Community,
— third report on the realization of the objectives of the             3.    to encourage the general application of the
     Community action programme for small and                          procedures followed in the European Community of
     medium-sized enterprises,                                         assessing new measures so as to gauge their impact on
                                                                       business, and in particular small and medium-sized
— communication on the administrative simplification
                                                                       enterprises (impact assessment);
     measures taken by the Member States on behalf of
     enterprises in the Community.
                                                                       4.    to pay particular attention to the following points:
Whereas measures are taken at the level of the
 Community to assure a favourable environment for
                                                                       a) improvement of the organization of administration, in
business, and, notably to simplify legislation and to
                                                                           particular of services in contact with enterprises, with
                                                                           the view to improving their efficiency and speed of
 (') OJ No C 189, 26. 7. 1989, p. 17.                                      response;
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b) standardization and reduction in forms and returns               h) suppression of redundant legislation and adaptation
   used in the fields of accountancy, taxation, social                   of legislation which no longer reflects economic and
   affairs, statistics, etc.;                                            social reality;
c) acceleration of the computerization of administrative             5.    to create or maintain within their services a consul-
   procedures with the view to reducing returns of data              tative committee, which should include representatives of
   by more cumbersome traditional methods;                           business, including small and medium-sized enterprises,
                                                                     and of the administration, with the view to promoting
d) establishment of one-stop shops providing guidance                the simplification of administrative procedures and of
   on the overall formalities to be observed on the                  legislation;
   creation of an enterprise, in particular in the less-
   favoured regions;                                                 6.    to inform the Commission regularly of major
                                                                     achievements in the field of administrative simplification,
e) replacement of the need for formal authorization by
                                                                     problems encountered and initiatives proposed so that
   procedures involving approval by non-opposition,
                                                                     the Commission can ensure that all Member States are
   according to which at the end of a certain time-limit
                                                                     fully aware of developments and possibilities in this
   the absence of a reaction on the part of the adminis-
                                                                     matter;
   tration is taken as approval;
f) improvement         of     information    to    small   and       7.    to take account, without prejudice to the social
   medium-sized enterprises, notably by the publication              rights of workers and the guarantees of third parties, of
   of vade-mecum, brochures and administrative organi-               the need for administrative simplification in their
   grammes;                                                          consideration of proposals for new national legislation
                                                                     and in the national measures for the implementation of
g) consolidation of legislation;                                     Community legislation.