Internal market and legal affairs
Internal market and legal affairs are broad policy areas of vital interest for SMEs, from which stem numerous legislative initiatives that affect European small and medium sized enterprises. UEAPME follows and gives its opinion on several EU initiatives concerning legal topics of interest to SMEs and recommends actions to help finalise the EU’s Internal Market.
General position papers
June 2006:
UEAPME’s contribution to the public consultation on the future of the Internal Market
General press releases
20/11/2007:
“Internal Market review” does not meet all SMEs’ expectations
06/09/2007:
Parliament puts SMEs at the heart of Single Market
In this section:
- Single Market Act
- Better regulation and simplification
- Services in the internal market
- Consumer protection
- Intellectual Property Rights and counterfeiting
- Company law
- Public procurement
- Single Euro Payments Area - SEPA
- State aid
- Competition policy
- Late payments
- European contract law
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Data protection