With the current political instability in the country, that avg processing time may take even longer for approvals by the Minister of Justice.
The Minister is gonna be away for Xmas, then they return mid- Jan. Busy debating / passing the mother of all Finance Bills, then begin campaigning for elections in March. And another few weeks before a new Gov't is formed, and Minister of Justice appointed. Possibly mid April 2011 before all gets back to 'normal'.
One can only hope the new gov't will have a new system after 're-inventing government'. Sounds like they trying to re-invent the wheel, when they could just adopt policies that are already successful in other EU countries.