Enterprise Policy

The EU Enterprise Policy aims to improve the business environment for enterprises and SMEs in particular. This policy comprises: promoting entrepreneurship throughout the EU, reducing red tape at European and Member State level, stimulating the adoption of information/communication technologies and electronic commerce, improving innovation, research and development, improving access to finance for SME's, stimulating the internationalisation of European businesses, improving the access to the Internal market for SME's, offering top-class business support services.

UEAPME concentrates a great part of its activities in monitoring the developments of the multi-annual programme for SMEs and Craft/Trades. The full implementation of the European Charter for Small Enterprises at European and national level is one of the main objectives of UEAPME's enterprise policy.

• General Enterprise Policy
• European Charter for Small Enterprises
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• SME Access to Finance
  • Single Euro Payments Area - SEPA
• Small Business Act for Europe