EU legislation on Business Environment

• Driving forward the entrepreneurship of European SMEs
• Common rules for the collection of business statistics
• Business statistics - standard EU rules
• A new EU approach to handling business failure and insolvency

•  SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SME) - 99% OF EUROPEAN ENTERPRISES
  • Micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises: definition and scope
  • A programme for clean and competitive SMEs
  • The SME Envoy
  • SMEs turning environmental challenges into business
  • European Charter for Small Enterprises
  • A modern policy for SMEs
  • A small business act for European SMEs
•  ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • Entrepreneurship 2020: a three-step plan for unlocking Europe’s entrepreneurship potential
  • Promoting youth entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion of young people
  • Stimulating funding for social businesses
  • Generating entrepreneurship in education and training
  • Promoting entrepreneurship in schools and universities
  • Action plan for entrepreneurship
•  BUSINESS SUPPORT
  •  Financing
    • Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (2007-2013)
    • Financing SME Growth
    • Developing Public Private Partnerships
    • Access to financing for businesses
    • Development of micro-credit
  •  Advice
    • Support to businesses
•  IMPROVING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
  • A well-functioning and efficient food supply chain
  •  Improving rules, practices and management
    • Better environmental performance: European eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
    • Transfer of businesses
    • Administrative burdens: sectoral reduction plans 2009
    • Combating late payment in business dealings
    • A simplified business environment
    • Overcoming the stigma of business failure
    • Reducing administrative costs
    • Open method of coordination: BEST procedure
    • Late payments
    • Green Paper: European Contract Law for consumers and businesses
  •  Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
    • Corporate social responsibility: a business contribution to sustainable development.
    • Corporate social responsibility in the EU
    • Sustainable Consumption, Production and Industry Action Plan
    • Green Paper on corporate social responsibility