The Directorate-General for Public Governance signs agreements with certain professional and social organisations to identify administrative burdens and simplify procedures. The procedures identified are distributed to the managing departments for analysis and assessment of the feasibility of modification.

Through these agreements, the General Government of the State enhances the active participation of the business and social sector in its policy of reducing burdens, and emphasizes the complementary role played by companies and associations in the assessment of the regulations in force, thus contributing to the achievement of the objectives of open government that this Administration has.

The agreements signed in 2023 provided for a duration of two years, which was later extended for the year 2025.

Below is a table with the number of conventions signed to date by organization.

NUMBER OF CONVENTIONS SIGNED (data 2023*)

*In 2024, the Addendum for the extension of the agreements signed with CEOE-CEPYME, Chamber of Commerce, ATA, CERMI, CEPES, UPTA and PMP is signed in the 2023-2024 biennium, for the year 2025.

The global annual monitoring report 2023, the result of the biennial conventions 2023-2024 (includes executive summary), can then be consulted:

Global Convention Report 2023

The proposals received from the signatory organisations are analysed by the Ministries of Management to assess their feasibility and implementation.

With regard to the conventions of previous years, the following reports are available:

Global Report Conventions 2022

Global Convention Report 2021

Executive summary of administrative burden reduction agreements 2020

Executive summary of draft conventions 2019

The Annual Reports on Burden Simplification and Reduction are annexed to the executive summaries of the reports of the Load Reduction Conventions. Please refer to the following:

Load Simplification and Reduction Reports

In a context of open and participatory governance, and as a way to enhance the active participation of the business and social sector in the policy of reducing administrative burdens, actions are promoted to know the effect that regulations in general and procedures in particular have on the target groups, and to explore ways to improve their governance.

In order to identify these ways of improvement, the organizations that sign the agreements develop meetings and forums for discussion with companies, entrepreneurs and freelancers that allow direct contact to know their needs, impressions and valuations, and in which they can directly express their proposals for simplification to the Administration.

These activities are carried out both in person and at a distance, making use of electronic means.

As an example, some meetings held in this context are indicated:

• Meeting with entrepreneurs from Ciudad Real organized by the Chamber of Commerce
• Meeting with tourism industry entrepreneurs Cáceres and A Coruñaorganized by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce
• Meeting with chemical entrepreneurs in Madrid, organised by CEOE-CEPYME
• Load reduction days organized by ATA in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Load reduction workshop organised by UPTA in Seville
• Online reduction load event organized by CEPES

The laboratories consist of forums to find solutions to specific problems in which the agents directly affected by the subject and the administration would participate, favoring the formation of spaces of creativity where both parties share data, experiences and resources.

As an example, and as a way of moving forward in the treatment of the measures proposed by the organizations with which administrative burden identification and reduction agreements are signed, the Ministries of Territorial Policy and Civil Service and Justice organised a meeting with professional associations and autonomous lawyers represented by the National Federation of Associations of Self-Employed Workers (ATA) to deal jointly and in more detail with certain questions of the application of safe exchange.