The government has decided to further develop its programme for improving the quality of public services for the benefit of users, citizens and companies through the "Einfach Lëtzebuerg" programme, and online public consultation procoess.
According to an interim report on the programme, the Omnibus law of 3 March 2017, which came into force on 1 April 2017, is a first decisive step towards a systematic screening of all administrative procedures and a new transversal approach institutionalised through the establishment of an inter-ministerial political and administrative platform, chaired by the Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reform.
In order to gather the views of interested citizens, companies and administrations, the Minister established a public consultation platform under the rubric “your ideas are of interest to us”, on the website: www.vosidees.lu.
Since its launch, www.vosidees.lu has already garnered some 200 responses, more than a quarter of which have been followed up on and become public action projects, 18 of which are already completed and 33 under way. The government says that the main trend of the responses was for modernisation of the state through the simplification of administrative procedures.
These projects are now being groups together with other government modernisation projects under a coordinated programme of administrative simplification called "Einfach Lëtzebuerg" launched by the Government in Council on March 11, 2016.
Einfach Lëtzebuerg aims to achieve legislative simplification, digitisation of the administrative and tracking procedures, and centralisation.
To achieve this, there will be a review and quality control of existing legislation, enhanced transparency and consultation, and a digitisation of procedures.
Under these imperatives, any future draft regulation should be understood according to a number of principles, in particular whether there is a need to legislate, or some other solution could be found, whether the means are proportional to the objectives, and transparency.
A catalogue of projects, completed and under way, is being published for ongoing public review.
At the same time, an "Einfach Lëtzebuerg" support cell will focus on the "quality control" to be applied to these projects in the short term. In this context, an introduction to the "Einfach Lëtzebuerg" method will be integrated into the training modules for state employees through the National Institute of Public Administration. Seminars and practical workshops will also be offered at the request of the administrations.
