The General Directorate of Public Governance signs agreements with certain professional and social organisations for the identification of administrative burdens and simplification of procedures. The procedures identified are distributed to the managing departments for their analysis and assessment of the feasibility of modification.
Through these agreements, the General Administration of the State promotes 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 evaluation of the regulations in force, thus contributing to the achievement of the objectives of open government that this Administration has.
The alliances that, since 2008, have been signed and maintained with business entities (Chamber of Commerce of Spain and CEOE-CEPYME), with the autonomous sector (ATA and UPTA), with the Social Economy (CEPES) and with entities representative of the rights of people with disabilities (CERMI) and seniors (Platform of Seniors and Pensioners) are a stable vehicle that can be climbed to a new level, of greater ambition, if the complicity of Economy is found, and that also enjoys the favor and recognition of entities such as the European Commission and the OECD.
The agreements signed in 2023 provided for a duration of two years, which was later extended to the year 2025.
Below is a table showing the number of conventions signed to date by organization.
In 2024, an addendum was signed to extend the agreements signed with CEOE-CEPYME, Chamber of Commerce, ATA, CERMI, CEPES, UPTA and PMP in the biennium 2023-2024, for the year 2025.
The proposals received from the signatory organizations are analyzed by the managing ministries to assess their feasibility and implementation. All of them are recorded in an annual report.
You can consult the annual global monitoring report 2023, Outcome of the Biennial Conventions 2023-2024 (includes executive summary)
With regard to the conventions of previous years, the following reports can be consulted:
Executive summary of administrative burden reduction agreements year 2020
Executive summary of proposals for conventions 2019
Executive summaries of load reduction convention reports are annexed to the annual Simplification and Load Reduction Reports.
They can be consulted at the following link:
Simplification and Load Reduction Reports
In a context of open and participatory government, 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 the regulations in general and the procedures in particular have on the groups to which they are directed, and to explore ways of improving
To identify these ways of improving, the organizations that sign the agreements develop conferences and discussion forums with companies, entrepreneurs and self-employed people that allow a direct contact to know their needs, impressions and valuations, and in which they can directly express their simplification proposals to the Administration.
These activities are carried out both in person and at a distance, using electronic means.
By way of example, some meetings held in this context are indicated:
Other examples of effective reduction of burdens and administrative simplification at the level of the Department of Economics, and which come from the agreements promoted by our ministry, would be, recently:
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has included in its recent report “OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2025” an explicit reference to the collaboration between the Ministry and CERMI in the identification and reduction of administrative barriers affecting people with functional diversity in Spain. The report highlights, in particular, the participatory process through which CERMI has identified 112 proposals for reducing administrative burdens, as well as the fact that 42% of these proposals had already been implemented by April 2024.