Africa-Press – Angola. The Executive will institute the Single and Lifetime Commercial Permit, within the scope of the implementation of SIMPLIFICA 2.0, a diploma that aims to continue the continuous and systematic execution of reforms of acts and procedures, particularly in the economic sector, namely in the licenses or permits required for the exercise of activities.
The Draft Decree approving SIMPLIFICA 2.0 was approved yesterday by the Interministerial Commission for State Reform, in a meeting guided by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, and should be submitted to the Council of Ministers for consideration.
According to the secretary of the President of the Republic for State reform, Pedro Fiete, with this measure, the permit becomes a single document and the economic agent will no longer need to renew the document. “Today, for an economic agent to carry out an activity in a particular establishment dedicated to the sale and provision of services, he must apply for the Commercial Permit, which allows him to sell goods, and the Mercantile Services Permit, which enables the trader to provide With this measure, the two documents will be incorporated into one”, he explained.
The activities exempt from the permit, he said, can be carried out without authorization from the Municipal Administration, “only the economic agent needs to communicate the start of commercial activity”.
The Industrial License Permit, which was valid for five years, also becomes a document for life.
Tacit Deferral
According to the Secretary of the President of the Republic for State Reform, the tacit approval in the treatment of the environmental license is foreseen, one of the requirements for obtaining an industrial license. “In circumstances in which the competent body does not respond within 30 days and there is a positive result of the environmental impact study, the licensing body can issue the industrial license in favor of the economic agent”, he said.
Pedro Fiete underlined that SIMPLIFICA 2.0 provides for an exemption from the environmental impact study for the installation of smaller industries, such as locksmiths, ice cream parlors, food and beverage processing plants with a daily production capacity of less than 10 tons, among others.
For the exercise of the restaurant activity, the validity period of the license, which was three years, is extended to 10 years, providing for the establishment of an automatic renewal mechanism, after which the agent must inform the administration to carry out inspection and renewal.
The Interministerial Commission for State Reform also approved the Single Urban Intervention License, which eliminates a series of documents for the construction of a work. It also provides for exemption from a license for conservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction works on subdivided land and other small-scale works.
SIMPLIFICA 2.0 brings together 26 acts and 89 concrete simplification measures, which result from a diagnosis made with citizens and companies, within the scope of which it was possible to assess a universe of acts and procedures that, in the context of the process of reducing bureaucracy , should be deleted, integrated or modified to ensure a more expeditious administrative response.
The objective is to increase citizens’ and companies’ confidence in public services, contribute to the improvement of the business environment and guarantee interoperability between Public Administration services.
Digital Transition
As part of the modernization of public services, the Interministerial Commission approved the Presidential Decree establishing the Roadmap for the Public Digital Transition Agenda 2022-2027, defining a universe of concrete actions with the aim of ensuring, on a regular and progressive basis, the dematerialization of public services and the respective processes under their responsibility.
According to the final communiqué, the Interministerial Commission also approved a Preliminary Draft Presidential Decree on Public Services, which allows for faster and simplified access, using information and communication technologies, to documents and electronic services made available by the Public Administration. .
The director general of the Institute of Administrative Modernization (IMA), Meick Afonso, said that these instruments will facilitate public services, “making them more agile, more modern and more within the reach of citizens”.
The Interministerial Commission approved the Progress Report on the Execution of SIMPLIFICA 1.0, started in June of last year and which aims at the articulated implementation of actions and measures oriented towards the adoption of good practices in Public Administration, as well as the reduction of bureaucracy, integration and optimization of processes that contribute to improving the provision of public services to citizens.
According to the press release, in this first phase of SIMPLIFICA (with an execution level of 78 percent), it was possible to reduce bureaucracy in 73 measures in different sectors of activity, translating into cost reductions, faster issuance deadlines, increased the period of validity, elimination of documents and formalities that prove to be unnecessary, unification of acts, among other actions aimed at facilitating the relationship between the administration and individuals.
Within the scope of SIMPLIFICA 1.0, the Interministerial Commission approved the preliminary draft of the Presidential Decree establishing the Vehicle Title, incorporating in a single document the data currently contained in the Booklet and the Motor Property Title.
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