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"Madam President, with regard to this debate we need to be aware, at the end of the day, that this is not a legislative standard – and, therefore, a Community rule applicable to the various Member States – but rather a set of benchmarks which attempts to ensure that, henceforward, all European Union Member States adopt a common approach with respect to small and medium-sized enterprises. There are many aspects to this subject, but I am going to mention three that I certainly believe are important. Firstly, there is a need to remove many of the legal barriers, many of the obstacles and much of the excessive red tape hindering – to an extraordinary extent in certain countries – the creation of small businesses, and also the development of these businesses once they have been created. All this requires financial and human resources to tackle this extraordinary amount of excessive regulation, and these resources can thus not be used for other purposes. Secondly, there are the issues relating to technological innovation and applied research. To this end, we must also redouble our efforts to ensure that SMEs have access to Community programmes, which also, in many cases, suffer from too much red tape. Finally, I believe the relationship between SMEs and the training and educational spheres is vital: if the SMEs, the small businesses, do not become the natural arena for additional skills training at the various training levels, then in fact we, or rather the SMEs, will cease to have certain extraordinary resources, and by that I mean persons being trained."@en1
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