TIRANA, Oct 3 /ATA/ -By Maela Marini/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama chaired a meeting with business community representatives on Tuesday to discuss the latest government initiative designed to review business administrative procedures and cut red tape and bureaucracy practices in a bid to further improve the business climate in Albania.
In his remarks, PM Rama said that today’s meeting marked the beginning of a discussion and interaction process to jointly identify all the bureaucratic links and the excessive administrative procedures that need to be eliminated.
“The initiative is designed to jointly further improve business climate. I think you are all aware about the latest outlook for Albania from the international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s that assesses the rating of every country in terms of their progress and economic outlook,” PM Rama said.
The government head noted that for the first time, the Standard & Poor’s has upgraded its outlook for Albania from stable to positive.
“This is a very significant signal for what we have delivered as of today and a very encouraging signal about what we can further do,” he added.
The Premier told entrepreneurs that it was time to jointly refocus and conduct a detailed analysis on the measures to improve business climate.
“We have already embarked on a performance analysis within the government bodies and institutions to review all the procedures to figure out what can be further relaxed and eliminated. However, this would be an incomplete exercise if, based on your daily experience and your interactions with the government institutions, we do not receive your feedback and viewpoint on how these procedures written on paper how to obtain a license, permit or certain document, are translated into everyday reality and which of them actually hinder the interest of the state instead of helping it, and whether these procedures hamper the business climate,” PM Rama added.
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