Morocco Aims to Streamline Self-Employment Registration Process

Minister Younes Sekkouri intends to work to accelerate the processing of applications for self-entrepreneur status, which is experiencing a huge delay. Interested candidates can fill out the registration form available online at https://ae.gov.ma/, and then submit it to a post office or a bank branch network. In total, 5,460 units are dedicated to this operation, which will make it possible to process the self-entrepreneur applications, which amount to an average of 5,800 per day, quickly, according to L’Economiste.

Created in 2015, the self-entrepreneur status aimed to promote job creation and formalize certain activities that were being carried out illegally. The government of the time had set a target of reaching 100,000 self-entrepreneurs by the end of 2020. Today, 445,000 people have filed their applications to obtain the self-entrepreneur card. Of this total, 340,000 people have already been satisfied and can start their activity, and the remaining 105,000 are awaiting the completion of the processing of their application.

The only problem that remains is the delay in the withdrawal of self-entrepreneur cards by applicants. The new government, in its general policy statement to Parliament, announced the creation of one million new jobs. The self-entrepreneur status could contribute to this, especially since it can be transformed into an SARL and hire staff.