Bureaucracy slows down Sardinian businesses: "Times and costs doubled"

Like a car with the handbrake on: the more than 140 thousand Sardinian businesses have to deal every day with a bureaucracy that - due to its degeneration - takes up at least 10% of their turnover every year . An incidence double that of other regions. Building permits, financing procedures, personnel-related obligations: bureaucracy represents a hidden cost that weighs on entrepreneurs on a daily basis, a burden that creates obstacles by taking away precious time from work and productivity, as Confartigianato imprese and Confapi underline.

From this point of view, the Island has the worst indicators at national and European level . In the EU competitiveness ranking, it is in 203rd place out of 234 also due to the "poor" reliability of the institutions: the overall score (49 out of 100) is about half the European average. And even in comparison with other Italian realities, Sardinia comes out with broken bones . Because although bureaucracy is the Italian evil par excellence, there are regions in which the weight of the relationship with public offices is less invasive.

If we broaden the discussion and consider the timing of justice, payments by the Public Administration, the duration of public construction sites and other factors, Sardinia's performance is insufficient. The latest available study by Confartigianato on the subject says that the so-called "bureaucracy index" of the Island reaches 673 points , not far from Sicily (802) which according to the association is the region where the clash with public offices most influences the life of businesses.