On Wednesday, the government adopted an extraordinary resolution that establishes the legal basis for issuing a single industrial license and simplifies the procedures for issuing licenses, permits, agreements, notifications, and permits necessary for conducting industrial activities.

What advantages will there be for entrepreneurs?

• “We are creating a single interface, a single point of contact between those who want to create a factory in Romania and the state administration. So all documents, information exchange between entrepreneurs, investors and the administration will take place through one point.
• Two – it is also being digitized. Thus, in a year, there will also be an electronic platform that will facilitate this exchange of information, including the possibility of simulating a license, which will allow investors who want to establish a factory to have a clear idea of ​​what documents to submit to the responsible authorities and the estimated duration of obtaining approvals.” , he said on Wednesday Bohdan Chiritsoyu, President of the Competition Council.

He noted that the government he leads is a co-initiator of the GEO project, the relevance of which is that the project is a milestone in the PNRR, although it was completed in collaboration with the OECD this year.

A milestone in the PNRR is the adoption of a regulatory act by the end of the year, and it must also be passed through parliament, Chiritsoyu said.

• “One point of submission of documents, only once! Digitizing the process of granting a single industrial license, we eliminate administrative barriers and thereby accelerate the pace of development of new investments!
• Performers will be able to conduct certain procedures remotely, which means halving the time for these purposes. No queues, no duplicates, no railway folders! The 38 institutions are part of the largest reform of the business environment, which I am happy to coordinate.
• The result includes facilitating the exchange of data between IT systems, which will automatically lead to increased transparency!”, This was announced by the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Constantin-Daniel Cadariou.

Thanks to this legislative initiative, the Office of Industrial Licenses was created, whose task is to rationalize, simplify and digitize specific procedures for obtaining a single industrial license. Among the powers of this new specialized body of the central public administration, we mention the creation and administration of the Single Electronic Contact Point for Industrial Licenses (PCUEL), which will be integrated into the e-government system managed by the Romanian Digitalization Authority.

The single point of contact for industrial licenses will interact with the IT systems of the competent authorities, as well as with the data related to these systems, so that data can be exchanged between interested parties, regardless of the technology used.

In addition, the entry into force of the Single Industrial License Law is milestone 243 under component 9 “Support to the private sector, research, development and innovation” related to component III. “Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, including economic cohesion, jobs, productivity, competitiveness, research, development and innovation, and a functioning internal market with strong small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).”

The document was based on the Final Report of the project “Comprehensive restructuring of the licensing system in Romania” on the simplification of business licensing, developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and launched in Romania in May 2022.

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