Puebla City Council seeks to digitize procedures to accelerate economic recovery

Puebla, Pue. Given the need to speed up the opening of businesses in the municipality of Puebla, as part of the economic recovery, the city council anticipates that by early 2022 60% of the operation and construction license procedures will be digitized to reduce time and costs, this as part of the regulatory improvement demanded by entrepreneurs.

The mayor Eduardo Rivera Pérez, who was accompanied by the president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Ignacio Alarcón Rodríguez Pacheco, explained that they are making a diagnosis to see what procedures need to be improved in order to get out of the last places in the regulatory framework.

He indicated that with the support of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) they will carry out the analysis, digitization, as well as train staff in the processes, so it has to be fast to provide solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

“We want to avoid acts of corruption that occur in this process, as well as speed up the operation of new businesses so that through an online registry, those interested in a period of 90 days can regularize their procedures or start their businesses faster” , he delved.

He considered it important to carry out monthly meetings with the professional associations and business chambers, in which the diagnosis and prioritization of the procedures will be presented, the regulatory improvement processes will be evaluated and nonconformities, suggestions, suggestions, will be dealt with in a preventive manner. and contributions they have.

Rivera Pérez pointed out that they will not be an obstacle for entrepreneurs, who are the generators of jobs, since it is necessary that they open businesses to speed up the economic recovery of Angelópolis.

“This program will generate transparency and legal certainty in the procedures of services that are provided to people and companies, we have to reduce the burden and turn around the complexity of opening a business,” he said.

Reactivation

For his part, the president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Ignacio Alarcón Rodríguez Pacheco, said that the partners are willing to support the economic reactivation, but it is urgent to provide greater facilities in the procedures.

Regarding the regulatory improvement, he considered it important to strengthen it, because 80% of the businesses are micro, small and medium-sized companies and, to open one of these, it takes up to 20 days to complete the procedures.