AFTER more than a year of inaction, the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) finally has its first director general, former Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission consultant Jeremiah Belgica. The new chief will now face the challenge of demonstrating quickly the importance and value of the agency.

ARTA was created by Republic Act (RA) 11032, or the “Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018,” which was signed into law in May 2018 but only now will be put into effect. The goal of ARTA is “to implement a national policy on anti-red tape and ease of doing business, and to promote reforms and initiatives aimed at improving the competitiveness ranking of the Philippines,” the agency said in the same statement announcing Belgica’s appointment.

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