On 24 November 2026, SEBIT and Die Bürokratiemonster ask which bureaucracy protects people, the environment, and democracy — and which only gets in the way. Online and free, 16:00–18:00.
Good Rules Need Good Bureaucracy: SEBIT Discussion, 24 November 2026
Good Rules Need Good Bureaucracy
On 24 November 2026, SEBIT — the Sächsische Entwicklungspolitische Bildungstage — hosts Gute Regeln brauchen gute Bürokratie (Good rules need good bureaucracy). The session is online, free, and runs 16:00–18:00. Registration is on the event page. The join link is sent by email on the day.
SEBIT organises the discussion with the Entwicklungspolitisches Netzwerk Sachsen. Fleur, Justus, and Robin of Die Bürokratiemonster lead it.
What the session asks
The familiar claim is that bureaucracy has to go so the economy and society can move. That claim shows up at EU level and in Saxony, where a second bureaucracy-relief package was adopted in the spring to release companies, municipalities, and citizens from administrative requirements.
SEBIT starts from the other direction. Bureaucracy is usually how shared rules are put into practice. The session asks whether it is only a burden, or whether good rules and a working administration are what protect people, the environment, and democracy. It also asks why administrative burdens are cut for companies while people without a strong lobby still face them.
The discussion is practical: which bureaucracy is worth keeping, which should go, and who decides.
Die Bürokratiemonster, and our research
Die Bürokratiemonster argue, with humour and pointed public actions, against treating bureaucracy as a blanket obstacle in politics, business, and the media. They warn that “cutting red tape” can be used to weaken protection of the environment and human rights, while administrative hurdles still fall on people with little political voice. They read that pattern as political choice.
They are Climate+Tech’s partner on Research on Bureaucracy and Democracy. That project treats regulation as necessary, and bad process as a real problem. The aim is administration that still protects people and the environment, and that is clear enough to use. The same line of work sits behind our writing on EU Better Regulation, including the Zenodo paper prepared with Die Bürokratiemonster and Baum e.V.
This SEBIT session is theirs. It is a public version of the question that research asks: good rules fail when the administration that carries them is hollowed out, and they also fail when the process is needlessly obstructive.
One week earlier: the Supply Chain Act in practice
The programme opens on 17 November 2026, also online at 16:00–18:00, with Wie wirkt das Lieferkettengesetz? Blick in die Praxis — how the German Supply Chain Act works in practice. The 24 November session then widens the question: what kind of bureaucracy those rules need.
Both dates can be registered from the 24 November event page.
How to join
- When: 24 November 2026, 16:00–18:00
- Where: online
- Cost: free
- Register: SEBIT event page. The link arrives by email on the day.
- Questions: SEBIT coordination, sebit@aha-bildung.de, 0351 43837872
Related reading
- Research on Bureaucracy and Democracy — the project with Die Bürokratiemonster
- Achieving “Simplicity by design” in EU Better Regulation — working paper with Die Bürokratiemonster and Baum e.V.
- Die Bürokratiemonster