NKR head Goebel on bureaucracy reduction • Table.Briefings

Lutz Goebel ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Henkelhausen GmbH & CO. KG und Mitglied des Präsidiums des Verbands Die Familienunternehmer. Seit Mai 2022 ist er Vorsitzender des Nationalen Normenkontrollrates der Bundesregierung. — Lutz Goebel is chairman of the National Standards Control Council (NKR), which is based at the Federal Ministry of Justice. (Photo: Thomas Trutschel/ Phototek)

In view of excessive bureaucracy, the chairman of the German government’s Standards Control Council (NKR) believes that government reform is urgently needed in Germany and calls on the governing coalition to get it off the ground. In an interview with Stefan Braun and Till Hoppe, Lutz Goebel makes it clear: We have to pick up speed – in Germany and at the EU level.

Mr. Goebel, you suffered from bureaucracy as an entrepreneur; as head of the Standards Control Council, you see how it is created. How much is the perspective changing?

NKR head Goebel on bureaucracy reduction: ‘We are far too complicated’

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