Traduction de «Bonus pour les petites et moyennes entreprises » (Français → Anglais) :

(a) under the 1997 budgetary procedure, the nomenclature and allocation of budget heading B5-320 'Business promotion (small and medium-sized enterprises)' should be checked to ensure that they take this situation into account as well as the other budgetary headings and actions which are to be operated in synergy with this programme;

For further comment the rapporteur would draw attention to the report she drew up previously for the European Parliament on the improvement of the fiscal environment of SMEs and the recommendation concerning the taxation of SMEs (A4-0024/94).

II. RECOGNIZING THAT - the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is of great importance for the competitiveness of the European economy, regional development and economic cohesion in the European Union, - small and medium-sized enterprises, including the various service activities, make an important contribution to growth and the creation of jobs, - the strengths of small and medium-sized enterprises lie in their flexibility and adaptability to changing circumstances, - this adaptability and flexibility is hampered by both internal (particularly financial and managerial) and external (particularly legal and administrative) h ...[+++]urdles, - a simple, logical and coherent legal framework would accordingly be essential to such enterprises, CONSIDERING that local development initiatives offer considerable potential for strengthening the economic and social fabric of the European Union and for creating employment, AWARE that both measures to create a legislative and administrative environment favourable to the development of enterprise and effective, high-profile support measures are essentially the responsibility of the Member States, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity set out in Article 3b of the Treaty establishing the European Community, EMPHASIZES that it is a priority concern of enterprise policy in the Community, as mentioned in the multiannual programme, to improve the legislative and administrative environment for enterprises, to intensify and improve the Community's provision of information to enterprises, to promote cooperation and partnership between small and medium-sized enterprises and to ensure the promotion and coordination of Community instruments, IS ACCORDINGLY CONVINCED that the Community's policy in favour of small and medium-sized enterprises should be put into practice and made more effective through a new and extended partnership between the Member States and the Community, and through efficient and regular consultation of th ...

V. Furthermore, CALLS UPON the Commission, in accordance with the intention stated in the integrated programme, to: - ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises gain better access to the specific research programmes under the fourth framework programme; - ensure, in particular, that the specific programmes for disseminating and exploiting the results of research and promoting transfers of technology and innovation are formulated in a manner helpful t ...[+++]o small and medium-sized enterprises; - provide for simplified procedures to facilitate access by small and medium-sized enterprises to Community programmes in the field of vocational training and further training; - ensure that barriers to international payments are removed; - provide better access for SMEs to European public contract procedures. NOTES the Commission's intention to draw up a detailed inventory of the various Community measures designed to encourage local development initiatives and local initiatives to promote employment, in particular those directed at micro-enterprises and craft enterprises.

The following resolution was adopted at the end of the conference. The European Conference on Craft Industries and Small Businesses: 1) Welcomes the adoption by the Commission of the action programme for small and medium-sized businesses (7 August 1986); 2) Hopes that all possible resources will be used to put into effect the actions described in the programme, as concerns both the business environment and greater flexibility and access to finance; 3) Considers that, since small businesses are those most handicapped by the non-tariff barriers which have persisted in the common market for 30 years, priority should be given to eliminating these obstacles to the completion of the internal market, and to reducing and simplifying administrativ ...[+++]e, tax and technical procedures as much as possible; ../.- 2 - 4) Considers that a special effort will have to be made to assist craft industries, including policies : a) to promote enterprise and the important role of the self-employed entrepreneur; b) to educate and inform craftsmen on the new technologies so that they are introduced into existing businesses; c) to encourage young people and the unemployed to set up their own craft industry businesses; d) to provide training in the new technologies and materials as early as the apprentice stage; e) to preserve craft skills; f) to simplify the procedures for making use of and protecting inventions. 5) Calls on the Community's financial institutions and Funds to introduce the kind of specific financing measures in favour of small businesses and craft industries that are easy to implement and cover the whole range of operations from grants and loans to special support and venture capital operations; 6) Welcomes the Commission's plans for providing information in the form of a "Community window for small businesses"; 7) Addresses this resolution to the Commission, Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the governement of the Member States.

Measures planned under the Community enterprise policy include the following : - the abolition of needless administrative, financial and legal constraints hindering business creation and development, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ; - the provision of information to firms, especially SMEs, Community policies, legislation, and activities and on those of each Member State which concern them or could concern them ; - the promotion of cooperation and partnership between firms, especially SPEs, from different regions of the Community.