The FINANCIAL -- The European Commission has just published Fact-Sheets on the situation
concerning SMEs and regulations applying to them in all Member States.
These form part of the SME Performance Review as a tool to monitor and assess Member States’ performance in implementing the Small Business Act (SBA) on the basis of a wide range of success indicators, focusing most notably on the measures in the SBA Action Plan. In the review of the SBA in February 2011 the Commission and the Member States acknowledged that strong governance is key to successful implementation of the SBA.
The 2010/2011 SBA Fact-Sheets draw on a set of 62 of statistical indicators and cover the 27 EU Member States, as well as Albania, Croatia, FYROM, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. The indicators are grouped according to the ten dimensions of the Small Business Act, namely: Entrepreneurship, Second chance, Think Small First, Responsive Administration, State aid and Public procurement, Access to finance, Single market, Skills and innovations, Environment, and Internationalization.
The SBA Fact-Sheets have been prepared by the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, assisted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The information concerning the recent policy measures adopted by the member states was compiled by a network of SME experts managed by Ecorys Netherlands and has been validated by Government representatives of the member states and the participating countries.
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