A bill has been presented that aims to create a single digital window for obtaining operating licenses, social security numbers and taxpayer codes in one day.
From a statement issued by deputy Otto Guevara Guth:
Members of the Libertarian Movement caucus have presented Draft Law No.
Agricultural entrepreneurs say that to register a product state agencies ask for requirements and information which in many cases "can not even be substantiated".
In the last ten years only 6 active ingredients have been registered, as the competent authorities on the subject "... are using technology from the 80's and 90's." This situation reduces the competitiveness of Costa Rica, as in most countries in the region products registered after having completed the approval process in the United States.
Businessmen in Costa Rica recognize the progress made by the government, but are calling for an acceleration in the process to eliminate the duplication of paperwork which still prevails in several institutions.
Currently we have a clear agenda to deal with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry regarding outstanding issues and the reduction in the number of requirements for starting a business and those for established businesses.
From April 1st 2015 the only documents needed to send products to the Indian market will be the air declaration, the commercial invoice and bill of entry.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promotion Office (Procomer):
The web platform the College of Engineers and Architects wil present to the government will allow for all the procedures that are currently carried out in 14 different public institutions to be done in one place.
Olman Vargas, executive director of the Association of Engineers and Architects (CFIA) told Ameliarueda.com that "... if the government accepts the proposal, the site will be ready in a period of 6 months. "Some of the procedures that must be carried out in the period prior to construction of a project are the presentation of land plans, land use, water availability, environmental impact and road permits, all at different institutions.
The platform to digitize and centralize export formalities will not be completely ready before the end of the year.
Since its launch in February 2014, only half of the Foreign Trade Single Counter platform has been running and it only allows processess to be carried out digitally in 5 out of the 44 technical documents for export products.
The documents which can be processed for now correspond to "....
Central American countries need to implement a series of improvements in customs procedures in order to meet the requirements of the agreement for the facilitation of international trade.
Within two years, as part of the commitments made in the 2001 Doha Round of the Bali Agreement, signed in 2013 by 160 nations belonging to the World Trade Organization (WTO), including Central America, governments will have to harmonize their customs systems ensuring trade facilitation. However, to date institutional progress on issues established by the Agreement such as simplification, harmonization and automation of procedures for international trade have not happened, particularly in relation to the requirements and formalities for import, export and transit of border freight.
In Costa Rica the state purchasing system Mer-link facilitates getting guarantees of participation and compliance which must be used to support offers by companies in state tenders.
Currently 80% of purchases from around 111 government institutions are made through the Mer-Link electronic platform.
An announcement has been made of a beta version of a digital platform for paperwork and export permits which is integrated with related institutions.
From a press release by the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica :
This morning (yesterday) PROCOMER launched the beta version of Single Window for Foreign Trade (VUCE) 2.0 a project that will revolutionize the export sector and domestic importer, offering an interoperable platform ( with approvals in minutes) between the 16 state institutions state that are involved in foreign tradeprocedures.
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