National Links and Publications

The intermediate report is available on www.bundesregierung.de/buerokratieabbau. (currently in german only and will be modified until summer 2009, including permanent updating, monitoring of new admin burdens and history function for each IO (showing development of admin burdens since baseline measurement)

 

All relevant information on the Federal Government’s Programme on Better Regulation and Bureaucracy Reduction is available via the following URL (in German only):

 

http://www.bundesregierung.de/buerokratieabbau.html

 

The Annual and Interim Reports, as well as the SCM manual and other publications, are available on:

 

http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Artikel/2009/02/2009-02-09-uebersicht-publikationen-buerokratieabbau.html

 

The English versions of the Annual Reports are available upon request; please contact

 

buerokratieabbau@bk.bund.de

 

The homepage of the Regulatory Control Council is:

 

http://www.normenkontrollrat.bund.de/Webs/NKR/DE/Homepage/home.html

Annual report 2008

http://www.bundesregierung.de/nsc_true/Content/DE/__Anlagen/2008/12/2008-12-10-ib-vorabexemplar-bericht,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/2008-12-10-ib-vorabexemplar-bericht - German

The 2007 Federal Government Report on the use of the Standard Cost Model:

The Statement of the National Regulatory Control Council on the Federal Government Report:

The Statement of the National Regulatory Control Council on the Federal Government Annual Report pursuant to Section 4 (3) of the Act on the Establishment of the National Regulatory Control Council.

The National Regulatory Control Council  has also in September published an annual report. The report can be downloaded here:

English version of the German Guide to the ex-ante assessment of administrative costs:

The German ex-ante guide

English version of the German SCM Manual (November 2006):

The German SCM Manual

German Cabinet Decision (April 2006):

Programme for the Reduction of Bureaucracy and Better Regulation