Press Release: How can we make the EU a better place for SMEs? Commission seeks your views

The European Commission launched on the 8 September 2014 a consultation on the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises related to EU policy. The purpose of the consultation is to help upgrade the EU's Small Business Act (SBA).

The SBA - a wide-ranging set of measures designed to make life easier for small companies - has already proved to be a good basis for SME policy. As it is built upon the exchange of best practices, support for internationalisation and entrepreneurship as well as access to finance (implemented via the financing instruments of CIP and COSME), it encourages EU countries to take up effective solutions that have worked elsewhere and to come up with equally good ideas themselves. Combined with strong initiatives for smart regulation it has contributed to SMEs' ability to weather the economic crisis.

European Commission: DG Enterprise and Industry: All topics: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/small-business-act/index_en.htm

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