The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to set up a commission aimed at reducing red tape.
The new body will be named the Commission for Eliminating Excessive Requirements for Businesses and will be chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet supported Economy and Innovation Minister Lukas Savickas’ proposal to include ministers in the commission.
“Both the chairmanship and the composition should come from the highest political echelon for a simple reason – responsibility, initiative, dynamics, and speed in implementing the decisions made,” Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas told the cabinet.
The commission will include the ministers of economy and innovation, environment, energy, finance, internal affairs, and agriculture, as well as eight business representatives.
Paluckas unveiled the initiative to create the red tape reduction commission last year following the announcement by Arvydas Paukštys, owner of Teltonika, that the high-tech company was halting the construction of the Teltonika High-Tech Hill park in Vilnius due to bureaucratic hurdles.
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