That is an excellent example. As we have seen, labour shortages can have a direct effect on the availability of food.
We have asked ourselves about the simplest solution that we could recommend to the government. In our opinion, it could quite easily make a few changes to two pilot projects that were launched in recent years. That would help us considerably.
Speeding up processing times is definitely a good idea. I know that the government has announced additional investments to increase the number of employees processing those applications. As your colleague mentioned earlier, all applications submitted by the food processing sector should really be handled by the same group of people, so that they acquire some expertise in the area.
We have also asked for the labour market impact assessments to apply to the entire food processing sector. In addition, those studies are currently valid for nine months or one year, if I recall correctly. We are asking for the studies to be valid for two years. If they were valid for two years, it could be expected that the government would have half as many applications to process.
Those are some of the things we are asking for. In our opinion, they would help the government to process the applications submitted by employers more quickly and effectively.