Regardless of the fanfare across the French authorities launching an internet one-stop-shop for entrepreneurs on January 1st to simplify the corporate formation process, the web site was hacked inflicting delays for entrepreneurs.
As firm formation specialists right here at Euro Begin Entreprises, we had been to see how this new website would work – particularly because it was meant to streamline the process from having to undergo six completely different departments to only one. Nonetheless, even earlier than the positioning was hacked, we discovered that we had been nonetheless being directed by three completely different web sites earlier than touchdown on the one the place we may add or change firm particulars.
The CEO of Euro Begin, Jean-Baptiste Puyraud, mentioned: “I can see the logic in eager to streamline the service. I admit it might be difficult earlier than, nevertheless it did really work. So if you happen to’re going to attempt to make issues less complicated, then it’s a must to ensure you can hit the bottom operating whenever you launch a brand new service, in any other case it simply creates much more problems.”
The brand new set-up had been voted for in 2019 as a part of the Pacte regulation to chop down on French forms. Any transfer to chop red-tape would appear like a good suggestion however even with virtually 4 years of preparation, the interface hadn’t appeared fairly prepared for launch. Many regulation corporations, accounting firms and notaries expressed their issues {that a} half-baked launch would depart the system in a good worse state than earlier than however their worries had been ignored.
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Sadly, an much more major problem arose when two days into the launch, the positioning suffered a serious safety assault when it was hacked by a virus that created 100,000 change requests per second – an enormous enhance that overwhelmed the system that solely usually offers with 70,00 per week. The large bombardment of virus requests triggered the system to dam and the positioning to finally crash.
The federal government’s INPI division, which runs the positioning, has managed to get the positioning again up however now it comes with one other downside. On the earlier system you might go into the web site and make as many updates as you wanted to the registered firm for one payment solely. Nonetheless, now you may solely make one change at a time – that means it’s a must to sign off and return into the system with every change you wish to make which wastes extra time – and also you additionally must pay for every of these separate modifications, even when it’s for a similar firm.
Macron’s want to make France a quick-flowing entrepreneur’s paradise gave enterprise folks the hope that the nation was marching to the remainder of the world’s tempo, nonetheless, it looks like the French system’s previous gears are grinding to a distinct timescale. However there may be an upside. Typically disasters pave the best way for actual modifications to be made. We’ve got already written to our native authorities ministers to ask for a significant change to the system and would urge all entrepreneurs on the market to do the identical. Hopefully this disaster can then spotlight the issues inside the system which have to be smoothed out to ensure the French firm formation process works in a brand new and improved method, each for French entrepreneurs and worldwide enterprise individuals who wish to increase to France.
