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ESBA PRESS RELEASE
Embargo: Wednesday 19 November 2003
ESBA DISAPPOINTED WITH THE IMPACT
OF THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR SMALL ENTERPRISES
IN THE EU MEMBER STATES
During their Board meeting yesterday, ESBA members discussed extensively the recently published Member States reports on the implementation of the European Charter for Small Enterprises and expressed their concern that most of the initiatives listed in these reports have little or no impact on the economic situation of SMEs in Europe.
The national reports make no reference to the actual economic situation and the great difficulties that entrepreneurs encounter when trying to maintain their level of activity and income. Although many initiatives are recorded in the reports, none of them are actually evaluated.
“Enterprise policy throughout Europe will not deliver strong results as long as authorities implementing such measures do not carry out business impact analysis, keep the best measures and abandon those which have no effect” said Brian A. Prime, President of ESBA.
ESBA calls for all measures promoted in the European Charter for Small Enterprises, to be fully quantified in each Member State and their impact on SMEs and entrepreneurship to be more thoroughly evaluated from 2004.
The European Small Business Alliance was established in 1998. It is now represented in 22 countries and represents more than 1.5 million entrepreneurs. It is one of the largest organisation based on free/voluntary membership in Europe. ESBA represents entrepreneurs in traditional manufacturing, commerce and services sectors as well as small business entrepreneurs from the new economy. ESBA is a member of WASME, the World Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
For more information, please contact ESBA Brussels (info@esba-europe.org)
Note to the editor:
The European Charter for small enterprises was signed by the EU 15 at the Feira European Council on 19-20 June 2000. The Charter calls upon Member States and the Commission to take action to support and encourage small enterprises in ten key areas, including i.e. better legislation and regulation, education and training for entrepreneurship, cheaper and faster start-up, taxation and financial matters. The candidate countries endorsed the Charter on 23 April 2002. EU members States and accession countries are required to produce annual reports on the implementation of the Charter.
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