Promote a competitive business environment:
- Ensure the effective and timely consultation of stakeholders on new draft legislation and regulations, including by avoiding emergency legislations.
- Formalise and accelerate the review of existing business regulations in cooperation with businesses and union representatives.
- Ease regulatory restrictions in professional services such as lawyers and notaries, including with respect to market entry, pricing of legal services and professional cooperation between lawyers and notaries.
- Systematically evaluate loan-guarantee and subsidised lending programmes for SMEs.
Foster the qualification of the labour force:
- Improve access to childcare by shifting public spending from birth grants towards childcare facilities.
- Rebalance the high share of support for direct job creation towards more training and counselling for unemployed workers.
- Ensure the quality of training providers through regular quality assessments and improved certifications of adult learning courses.
- Establish a national system for the recognition of prior learning and facilitate the recognition of education and skills gained abroad.
