Joint programme of the Federal Government and the Länder for an efficient administration that benefits citizens and businesses

The aim of this measure is to promote an efficient public administration that works in the interest of its citizens and is innovation-inducing.

To this end, planning and approval procedures will be streamlined, public funding will be made more easily accessible for lower levels of government, residential construction is to be accelerated through simplification and businesses will be more easily transferred to the next generation.

Efforts are led by the heads of government of the federal level and of the federal states and cover 11 areas of public administration:

• Accelerating the outflow of grants; 
• Identifying obstacles to the outflow of grants and reporting them to the Federal Ministry of Finance;
• Improving the financial support of municipalities;
• Streamlining and making grants from the Federal Government to the Länder and municipalities as uniform as possible;
• Improving transfer of business ownership through a dedicated task force;
• Revising the model building code (Musterbauordnung);
• Strengthening planning and approval authorities; 
• Improving recruitment of skilled staff and ensuring an improved staffing situation;
• Accelerating planning, in particular rail, local public and private transport;
• Streamlining the consultation process and public participation procedures and simplifying participation through digitalisation;
• Further accelerating planning and approval processes.

A progress report on the implemented policies has already been published.

The measure will be completed by March 2025.

More information can be found here.