Making Life Easy for Citizens and Businesses in Portugal

Administrative simplification and e-government

Reducing the time for registering a company from weeks and months to under one hour is a concrete result of a unique and ambitious initiative in Portugal to make the public sector more efficient and effective. The Simplex initiative aims at making life easier for citizens and businesses. It focuses on how e-government can be used as a lever for broader administrative simplification, making service delivery more coherent and efficient.

This is the first integrated study undertaken by the OECD to analyse administrative simplification and e-government in a national context. By bringing those two areas together in the context of public management reform, this review helps countries identify how these reform activities can best support overall government performance and economic growth.

The report is in English only. A French translation of the Assessment and Proposals for Action has been included in this volume.

Further reading

OECD e-Government Studies

Netherlands

Turkey

Hungary

Denmark

Cutting Red Tape

Comparing Administrative Burdens across Countries

Administrative Simplification in the Netherlands

National Strategies for Administrative Simplification