Franche-Comté. Artisanal Distillation: Simplified Customs Procedures, the Pilot Region

A single, simplified form, available at town halls, France Services offices, on prefecture portals, and at customs offices, now allows distillers to complete all formalities. The experiment has been running in Franche-Comté since September ^1. Around 2,000 applications were submitted last year.

Franche-Comté has 927 public or associative distillation workshops, and some 6,400 listed stills. Photo Véronique Olivier

Public transformation is underway. Aiming in particular to "rethink administrative procedures" by simplifying them. It must be admitted that for those lacking digital agility, the digital experience on the website of the National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS) is akin to an obstacle course. Let the France Services houses, in the flesh, make up for it...

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