Peru’s Indecopi removed over 4,600 bureaucratic obstacles
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Peru’s National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) removed or stopped the application of 4,619 unnecessary bureaucratic requirements during the first half of the year.
The agency estimates these changes saved citizens and businesses more than 29 million Peruvian Soles. Most of the removed barriers, 4,011 in total, were voluntarily eliminated by public entities following Indecopi’s review.
Provincial municipalities across Peru accounted for 91.1% of these voluntary removals, with the municipalities of Mariscal Luzuriaga in Áncash and Sechura in Piura eliminating 264 and 261 barriers respectively. However, Indecopi also identified 608 illegal or unreasonable requirements through official procedures and citizen complaints. The Callao Provincial Municipality had the most problematic barriers with 233, representing 38.3% of the total identified.
The Madre de Dios Regional Government and the Ministry of Transport and Communications followed with 73 and 30 barriers, respectively. Indecopi publishes these semi-annual rankings to assess compliance with administrative simplification laws and encourage voluntary removal of requirements.
