Sustainable development
The Sustainable Development Unit of UEAPME focuses on EU Environmental policy and on the environmental aspects of EU Energy policy. This Unit voices the concerns of SMEs when having to comply with strict legislative requirements while lacking the necessary means (information, technical support and expertise, financing, etc.) to do so. Therefore, initiatives such as the Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP), aimed at assisting SMEs in complying with environmental legislation, are warmly welcome and encouraged. The Unit mainly follows the legislative process of new and revised EU legislation in order for it to be applicable by SMEs while meeting the environmental and climate challenges of today.
General position papers
September 2010:
UEAPME’s views on SMEs and Sustainable Development in the current economic and environmental context
In this section:
- EU Sustainable Development Strategy and Lisbon Strategy
- Compliance Assistance Programme
- Integrated Product Policy (IPP)
- Environmental technologies and eco-innovation
- Legislation on chemicals
- Environmental voluntary instruments
- Waste policy and sustainable use of natural resources
- EU financial instruments for the environment: LIFE+, Eco-Innovation Programme
- Revision of the IPPC Directive
- EU energy policy
- The High Level Group (HLG) on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment
- Greening of Public Procurement (GPP)
- Climate change
- 7th Environmental Action Programme
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