El Economista – Mexico City
The federal government has eliminated 1,711 procedures from the Federal Public Administration as part of the administrative simplification strategy promoted by the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, its head reported. José Antonio Peña Merino.
During the morning conference this Thursday, the official explained that of the 5,594 procedures identified in the Federal Public Administration, so far they have been intervened and simplified 3,497 of them, which represents an advance of 60%.
“It is, I say it with great humility, the largest simplification effort that has been in Mexico and in the region,” he stated.
Pena Merino explained that the elimination of procedures does not imply disappearing regulatory obligations, but rather integrating processes that were previously fragmented.
“If a person had to complete four procedures that were basically aimed at the same thing, today they are done in a single procedure, in a single moment,” he noted.
Window to accelerate productive projects
One of the announcements was related to the Digital Investment Window, a platform that concentrates the necessary procedures for the constitution, construction and operation of companies and investments at the three levels of government.
He indicated that, currently, 18 federal entities are already integrated into the system and the goal is to incorporate all 32 during this year.
As explained by the head of the Agency, the procedures to establish companies went from nine to six; those related to construction were reduced from 25 to 16; and operating costs decreased from 17 to 10.
The platform allows investors to answer a questionnaire to identify the permits they require according to the characteristics of each project, in addition to knowing the necessary documents and monitoring the progress of federal, state and municipal procedures from a single site.
Pena Merino He stressed that one of the main incentives included in the presidential decree of May 4 is the immediate authorization scheme for strategic investments.
Under this mechanism, projects will be able to access an accelerated review if they meet at least one of three criteria: make investments greater than 2,000 million pesos (US$115,228), be located in a Wellbeing Center or belong to one of the strategic sectors defined by the federal government.
These sectors include energy, chemicals, textiles, semiconductors, electronics, technological infrastructure, medical devices, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, biomedical, automotive and auto parts.
