Focus area 4 DIGITISATION MUST PROVIDE GOOD CONDITIONS FOR GROWTH FOCUS AREAS 4. BETTER FRAMEWORK FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY 5. PUBLIC SECTOR DATA AS A GROWTH DRIVER 6. AN EFFICIENT UTILITIES SECTOR THE GOAL Digital solutions have great significance for the framework conditions of businesses. Public sector digitisation should contribute to realising the Government's goal to reduce the administrative burden on the business community by DKK 3 billion by 2020 and to make it easier to run a business in Denmark. Digitisation and new technologies are drastically changing the conditions for businesses. Also in the public sector, there is an untapped potential for exploiting the opportunities provided by digitisation to rethink public services. It is the ambition that a far greater part of reporting by businesses to the public authorities is to take place automatically. The public sector has large amounts of data which businesses can use to optimise their procedures, and which can form the basis for new business opportunities and innovation. Therefore, the public sector should make more public sector data available to businesses and support exploitation of this data by businesses. Data must to a greater extent be improved and made available in a number of specific areas in which there is deemed to be a great potential for a more efficient and effective public sector and new business opportunities for Danish businesses. This includes data on waste, underground infrastructure, energy, topography, climate and water. 34 DIGITISATION MUST PROVIDE GOOD CONDITIONS FOR GROWTH Better framework for the business community Throughout the years, the public sector has played an important role in the digital transition of businesses, for example through mandatory digital communication and e-invoicing in dealings with public institutions and authorities. ing. This will require that reporting become more automatised, so that the relevant data is retrieved directly from businesses’ own systems. This saves time for the individual business and means better and more timely data for public authorities. Public sector digitisation should continue to contribute to raising the digitisation level of businesses. At the same time, digitisation must be targeted to make it easier and more attractive to run a business. The public sector must establish framework conditions which strengthen productivity, business development and competitiveness for Danish businesses. To achieve this, there is need for persistent and strong focus over the next many years on adapting IT systems, standardising data and changing workflows. At the same time, it requires addressing barriers relating to administrative law and data law. This entails extremely complex work, but it is the right way forward if digitisation is to make it easier to run a business in Denmark. Less administrative burden Digitisation offers an opportunity to drastically reduce the administrative burden of businesses. Businesses today spend a substantial amount of resources on reporting data to the authorities. Therefore, we must continue work to reduce this administrative burden. Digital tendering procedures As a consequence of the EU Public Procurement Directive, from October 2018 open procedures must be digital, from announcing to submitting tenders. Denmark should aim even higher. The authorities are already receiving invoices electronically. We therefore have to aim at an even more digital tendering and procurement procedure up to and including payment, and we should exploit the opportunities for reusing data. Businesses should not have the nuisance of submitting information to one authority which another authority already holds. Furthermore, there is a vision to completely eliminate the many requirements for manual reporting, and instead replace this reporting with automatic business report- A digital tendering and procurement procedure can make communication more efficient and reduce transaction costs for businesses and public authorities alike. A more DIGITISATION MUST PROVIDE GOOD CONDITIONS FOR GROWTH 35