But that was abandoned by the current government two years ago as part of a drive to reduce red tape.
China Daily says the draft plan "aims to streamline government agencies that may have overlapping functions and generally reduce red tape".
Companies could be fined up to 2% of global annual revenue if they breach new data protection rules proposed by the European Commission that aim to simplify the laws and reduce red tape.
The JOBS Act, which became law in April, was designed to cut red tape and reduce the burdens of financial disclosure for small companies seeking to raise capital in the stock and bond markets.
Simon Washington, a civil-engineering professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, co-wrote a study for the Arizona Department of Transportation in 2005 that cited other work showing that extending yellow-light intervals can reduce red-light running by 50% to 70%.
Today, the Administration is launching five pilot Regional Teams to strengthen collaboration, cut red tape, and reduce permitting timelines.
Elected officials and taxpayers alike are coming around to the idea that before taking on new obligations that it would be prudent to develop a strategy to reduce the red ink already on the books.
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EU-wide criteria would make clear which country's legal system applies when an inheritance concerns more than one member state, a move designed to reduce costly legal disputes and cut red tape for heirs.
"People living in private rented homes should be treated fairly and honestly, but we want to avoid excessive red tape that would push up the cost of rents and reduce choice for tenants, " a spokesman from the Department for Communities and Local Government said.
The policy story is simple: The cliff deal (plus expected economic growth) does begin to reduce the deficit to levels approaching sustainability, though the red ink begins to flow faster after about five years.
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The goal of the exercise was to reduce the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product (a standard way of measuring red ink) to 60 percent.
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