Avigdor Lieberman, Naftali Bennett (Facebook photo / Avigdor Lieberman, Flash 90 / Yonatan Sindel)
The government today (Sunday) approved a comprehensive plan to ease regulation for businesses and citizens. These reliefs will together save about NIS 1.16 billion a year for the Israeli economy, and more than a million days of waiting for approvals. The outline, dubbed “Spring Cleaning,” is a government move led jointly by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Justice Minister Gideon Saar, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Deputy Prime Minister Avir Kara.
This is a move that establishes a concentrated and rapid path to implementing a policy of reducing regulatory burden. The decision defines a list of 30 items and the schedules for working on them, from their formulation in the relevant government ministry and their publication for public comment, through their preparation in the Ministry of Justice to their laying on the Knesset table (or their approval by ministers).
The initiators of the reform introduced a series of concessions in several areas, concessions directly to citizens, such as abolishing the obligation to install a system to warn of forgetting children, in addition to vaccinating dogs every two years instead of every year, abolishing the obligation to obtain a tree felling license in private yards.
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Facilitations for improving the business environment, such as eliminating the requirement to translate regulations for a foreign company. Facilitation in the field of import and export, such as: expanding the recognition of importing medical equipment on a green route to 14 additional EU countries. Direct relief for professionals, such as: reducing real estate appraiser exams.
Direct facilitation of the industry, such as: creating a fast track for planning approval of connecting factories to gas distribution infrastructure. Facilitation of small food establishments, as well as various cross-cutting facilitation, such as adapting fire protection and detection requirements to NFPA American standards.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: “We continue to make it easier for the public, and open another plug in the bureaucracy. We have approved at once about 30 moves to reduce excess regulation in a wide range of areas. This is a significant reform that will affect the pocket and precious time of citizens and business owners in Israel. “From a variety of actions we have taken to alleviate the burden of regulation since the formation of the government, and this will continue in further moves that the regulatory authority and government ministries will lead in the coming months.”
The Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman: “We continue our cooperation between government ministries in order to facilitate the citizens of Israel. Especially in light of the outbreak of the Corona variant and the new Omicron crisis, “Small and medium-sized businesses in dealing with the state will save the economy about a billion shekels.”
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The Minister of Justice, Gideon Saar: “Dramatic and significant relief from the bureaucratic burden in Israel is a necessary move, especially in light of the Corona crisis. “In Israel, I thank the Department of Counseling and Legislation (Economic Law) at the Ministry of Justice for the hard work in this matter.”
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Avir Kara: “As part of the hard work of the Prime Minister’s Office and in cooperation with all the ministries, we are leading a ‘spring cleaning’ program that allows the government and ministries to quickly separate regulations and laws that create excess bureaucracy. A groundbreaking move that expresses the spirit of the current government – reducing the burden of bureaucracy. Businesses, citizens and the field will feel the relief within months. This is another step on the way to making life easier for the citizens and bringing Israel to the first places in the world with ease in doing business. ”
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