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The main axes of an administrational initiative involving the state should not, henceforth,
simply be cited but they should be established, as a consciousness and state value:
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Improved and comprehensive lawmaking, with concrete targets and a timetable for the
implementation of the rules.
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Codification
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Simplification
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Regulatory and electronic governance, as well as an implementation schedule.
In my opinion, a new coordination process is required for legislating actions, including
planning and policy measures, in order for them to be promoted, in the logic of integrated
databases and references for civil services. In addition, the accessibility to the regulations and
procedures, in means of modern electronic and related platforms, needs to be integrated into
our management practice.
It is my belief that what we can achieve through efforts made by codification and eGovernance
guides is the development of our democracy. If we develop our legal foundations, along with the
relevant procedures, we will succeed in eradicating the phenomena that have led to the crisis of
institutions, of the state functions and of our values.
If we manage to adopt rules and guidance standards today, we will succeed in changing our
image and in establishing practices to the benefit of all citizens.
What we describe is a reform. “The reform aims at limiting overregulation, along with updating
and bowdlerizing the existing legislation in such a way that the remaining rules are correct,
functional, intuitive and reasonable.” The aforementioned is not a writing of my own; it is the
writing of a lawwhich, like many others, has remained in the drawers of a glass tower, as a wishful
thinking and a theory, in a case identical to the drawers of the current bureaucracy.
Should we mainly wish for the reform to affect the way we treat the concept of the state, to the
benefit of the next generation, we should start now... The initiative of Nomiki Bibliothiki at hand
can set an example destined for recovery…