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As key drivers of innovation, job creation and competitiveness, small- and medium-sized enterprises have been firmly put centre stage in the recently adopted Growth and Employment Strategy. The Commission intends to present a new framework for SME policy in the second half of this year.
On 16 April a new SME Envoy, Mrs Maive Ruth, was appointed. She is an official of the European Commission and will act as a contact point for SMEs, maintain a dialogue with SMEs and ensure that their interests are properly considered within all EU policies and programmes.
Since the presentation of the Growth and Employment Strategy on 2 February, three initiatives of significant relevance to SMEs have already been taken. The first is better regulation. The Commission adopted, on 16 March, a communication on better regulation for growth and jobs in the European Union, one of its goals being to further reduce red tape. That is particularly relevant for SMEs because they have limited resources and suffer disproportionately from red tape.
The Commission will refine the impact assessment tool, an important tool for considering the effect of EU legislation on SMEs. The economic analysis of these assessments will be improved, which will strengthen their quality and make a significant contribution to competitiveness.
The Commission will also address regulatory excess in existing legislation. To get the best possible input to legislative simplification, we need to involve all stakeholders including SMEs. Based on their input we will draw up action plans for simplifying regulations per industrial sector.
The Commission is initiating a test phase for a common approach to measuring administrative costs in the EU, an issue of particular importance to SMEs.
Secondly, this is all about access to EU programmes for SMEs. On 6 April, the Commission adopted its remaining proposals for the new financial perspectives. They included two instruments of significance to SMEs: the EUR 4.2 billion Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), and the EUR 70 billion Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
The CIP is aimed fairly and squarely at SMEs. They will be the sole beneficiaries of the EUR 1 billion earmarked for the Community financial instruments and of the business and innovation support services, which will be provided through the European Union networks. SMEs will also be the primary beneficiaries of the entrepreneurial innovation activities. On the basis of experience of existing instruments, the Commission estimates that well over 70% of this competitiveness and innovation programme budget will be targeted to SMEs.
To step up the involvement of SMEs in research and technological development, we will strive for increased SME participation also in the Seventh Framework Programme. Efforts are under way to simplify the programme's management, diminish the costs for submitting applications, reduce the delay to contract and secure more certainty for applicants. The proposed funds available for the programme, dedicated to SMEs, will be more than doubled in this framework programme, in comparison with the previous one. That will help SMEs with no or little research capacity to get input from research providers.
Collaborative research remains the core and bulk of the framework programme. The choice of the nine themes will favour SME participation."@en1
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