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- (15.06.2011)
- Administrative burdens reduced by 25%
Administrative burdens for Danish businesses has been reduced by almost 25 % in the last ten years. Danish Minister for Economic and Business Affairs, Mr. Brian Mikkelsen announces a 25 % reduction in administrative burdens has been achieved. When the Government took office in 2001, a target was set to reduce the administrative burdens for Danish business with up to 25 % by 2010. The effort has...
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- (10.12.2007)
- Changes in database due to new government
After the general election on the 13th of November the government received a mandate for a third term. The election did however result in some changes in the composition of the government and therefore also in the distributionof the administrative burdens among the different ministries. These changes will be implemented in the database in Janu...
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- (06.03.2007)
- Danish Evaluation of the Impact Assessments
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- (22.01.2007)
- Germany will work for admin burden reductions
When taking over the EU-presidency Germany will continue the efforts to reduce the admin burdens from EU-legislation. At the same time Germany has domestically started a SCM baseline measurement according to plan by the beginning of January 2007. Germany adopted the Standard Cost Model by decision of the Federal Cabinet in April 2006 and pub...
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- (11.10.2006)
- EU has to reduce the administrative burdens
Bendt Bendtsen, Minister for Economic and Business Affairs, Denmark and Gerrit Zalm Minister of Finance, The Netherlands states that the european businesses suffer from unnecessary administrative burdens. In a letter to the edetor in the Financial Times they suggest that the SCM "could also work in Brussels".They also believe that quantitati...
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- (11.09.2006)
- International benchmark of selected EU-directives
Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands have conducted a qualitative and quantitative benchmark of the national implementation of three EU-directives. The benchmark exercise has generated important methodological findings for the ongoing work on how to benchmark EU-regulation. Dowload the report ...
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- (19.07.2006)
- SCM Steering Group Meeting
The next meeting in the SCM steering group will be at the 21st of September in Brussels. The meeting will be hosted by Flandern. The network was created in 2003 and the members all use the SCM to measure and reduce the administrative burdens for businesses. Denmark is one of the founders of the network and is also a member of the steering gro...
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- (18.07.2006)
- Catalogue of simplification measures
The SCM Network has created a Catalogue of Simplification initiatives. The Simplification Catalogue is a tool for highlighting simplification best practices on a national level. It consist of realised and proposed simplification measures and will be updated on a regular basis. The Catalogue is a mix of top simplification measures in terms of quantitative reductions and top best practices in terms ...
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- (18.07.2006)
- EU targets approaching
At the June 2006 European Council, heads of state and government clearly restated their request for setting quantitative targets to reduce the burdens on businesses at EU level. “Noting that some Member States have already set targets for reducing administrative burdens by 25 %, the European Council is convinced that it should be possible to set similar targets at EU level.” This text...
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- (18.07.2006)
- Call for faster simplification
The Competitiveness Council asks for faster simplification In its March 2006 contribution to the Spring European Council, the Competitiveness Council reiterated the importance of faster simplifications in the EU. “The Council will give priority to addressing simplification proposals brought forward by the Commission and asks the European Parliament to do likewise, working to implement the ...
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- (12.07.2006)
- 16 European countries are now applying the SCM
16 European countries has now joined the informal SCM Network which was created in 2003. The network was created in the autumn in 2003 and has since then grown from 4 to 16 member countries. The members of the SCM network all use the SCM to measure and reduce the administrative burdens for businesses. Read more about the SCM network at: www.administrative-burdens.com ...
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- (01.07.2005)
- International comparison of administrative burdens related to VAT
The Standard Cost Model has been used to measure the administrative burdens related to VAT in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The comparison of the VAT measurements in the four countries is described in this report. Read the report ...
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- (01.07.2005)
- Measurement of the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs
The administrative burdens relating to the business legislation within the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs comes to a total of DKK 8,856.9 million (app. euros 1.169,8 million). Read the report ...
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- (01.07.2005)
- Measurement of the Danish Ministry of Taxation
The administrative burdens relating to the business legislation within the Ministry of Taxation comes to a total of DKK 7,981.5 million (app. euros 1,053.1 million). Read the report ...
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- (01.07.2005)
- New Standard Cost Model Manual
A new manual for conducting Standard Cost Model Measurements has just been released. Read the manual ...
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