Struggles for friendlier business environment

The establishment of the sole Control Registry for companies, aiming to avoid the agglomeration of control actions, and the elimination of institutional parallelisms in control actions – two old promises aimed at improving the business environment, to be fulfilled by the end of July.

The Government may issue a law draft during its next session, according to which the Economical Police tasks would be taken over by the Financial Guard, subordinated to the Finance Ministry. The law draft on founding the sole Control Registry was approved by the Government in March, with the normative act set to be debated by Parliament under the emergency procedure.

Romanian companies have been complaining for years about the harassment created by the agglomeration and repetition of economical-financial control raids made by the Economical Police and the Financial Guard, often related to the same issues.

By the end of the year, a survey on establishing a new control system with a less punitive profile should be drafted.

The simplification of the companies’ registration and authorisation procedures will continue with the elimination of the compulsory authorisation procedure – medical, medical-veterinary, labour control, environment protection, fire prevention and extermination. According to the new regulations, authorisation procedures will begin after the registration, when the firm has already started functioning. At the same time, in the case of natural persons, the Finance Ministry will give up the tax file based on the previous year and will accept that their income can and does fluctuate.
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