Under the Online Access Act (Onlinezugangsgesetz – OZG) of 14 August 2017, German public authorities at federal, state and municipal level are required to offer their services digitally via administrative portals.
In collaboration with the central IT service provider of the federal government, ITZBund (Informationstechnikzentrum Bund), pro et con will realise the fourth stage of the Online Access Act for the ZEBRA (Zentralisierung des Brennens unter Abfindung – centralisation of distilling under compensation payment) and BIBER (Berechnung der Bier- und Branntweinsteuer – calculation of tax on beer and spirits) procedures. The goal is to fully digitalise public services including the automated retrieval of existing user registry verifications.
In 2022, pro et con already successfully implemented stage 3 by expanding the ZEBRA procedure to link to the administrative portal (for more information, see the ITZBund press release and our news). Since then, applications for compensation payments can be submitted online via the citizen and commercial customer portal, without the need of postal requests.
The internal processing, however, initially remained largely unchanged and thus requires a high degree of manual effort. This is about to change in the fourth expansion stage (OZG4). Then, data from the portal will be automatically accepted and processed via the individual procedures.
