On 18 May 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia reported that lawmakers were reviewing a bill to amend the Commercial Registration and Business Licensing Proclamation as part of a wider effort to ease the business environment.
Registration and licensing rules decide how fast firms can open, how many offices they must visit, and how much room remains for rent-seeking. Reform talk under Abiy Ahmed’s early economic team often started with this kind of paperwork.
Whether the amendment later cut real delays is a separate empirical question. The parliamentary review itself is still a dated policy fact for researchers of Ethiopian private-sector regulation.
Kept as business policy archive, the bill file sits with other 2019 measures that tried to unlock investment while foreign exchange and politics remained binding constraints.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia