This big industry Spain warns that the bureaucratic jams that are dragging Public Administrations are driving out millionaire investments from large multinational companies in Spain. This Alliance for the Competitiveness of Spanish IndustryA lobby that brings together employers from key industry sectors complains that delays in permitting and authorization processes put Spanish companies at a disadvantage relative to their competitors in other countries and threaten to cause future closures and relocations.
“Managements’ less rigor in handling permits affects options for attracting investment into the country,” warned Carlos Reinoso, spokesman for the industrial union alliance that brings US employers together. automotive, oil companies, paper industry, steel industry, food, cement or mineral raw materials. “Companies that want to invest in digitalization and decarbonisation, and that have the finance and technology to do so, should not see bureaucratic confusion paralyze those investments. It is a silent process that causes a loss of competitiveness and threatens future closures and relocations”.
Alliance for the Competitiveness of Spanish Industry, together with KPMG ‘Optimization of administrative processes by supporting the industrial sector’ Where administrations warn of delays, particularly in environmental and urban matters, which triple legal times and cause a wait of up to two years; the problems created for companies by the dispersion of legislation and requirements among different autonomous communities; the inadequate digitization of processing and the Spanish competitive disadvantage assumed by administrative bottlenecks in relation to other countries.
“The duration of procedures is as important a competitive factor as energy or labor costs,” summarizes Aniceto Zaragoza, general manager of cement employer Officemen. “Large groups always have the option to place their investments in other parts of the world rather than Spain. Administrative bottlenecks need to be resolved if we want to become an industrial country. However, investments will go to other countries” points out the executive, who warned that in addition to visible business decisions to invest in other countries, “there are others that are not seen as companies that do not open, grow or grow.” not transforming due to administrative bottlenecks”.
The industry association also warns that these bureaucratic delays pose an added risk when Public Administrations must face a series of extra procedures to absorb and disperse the millionaire explosion in European funds from Recovery, Transformation and Resilience.
Reforms and more authority
Solving administrative collapse problems, Reforms proposed from the Alliance how to create shorter mandatory resolution times; generalizing the positive administrative silence formula to consider an approved procedure if there is no official response; firmly promote the digitization of processes; simplification of procedures by applying the company’s responsible statement to further procedures to move forward; and also to provide the authorities themselves with greater legal certainty to avoid delays and halts in processes for fear of receiving complaints.
In parallel, industry groups are determined to expand the staff of administrations with more civil servants to remove barriers to certain processes. “There is now much more regulation and more procedures required and the same resources being made. just can’t”, states Reinoso. “Let’s break the taboo and rhetoric that it’s always better to have fewer officers.”