Traduction de «forum pme » (Français → Anglais) :

As part of the Commission’s continuing efforts to support SMEs, European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani, responsible for enterprise and industry policy, today also launched a new single online portal on all EU financial instruments for SMEs as well an information guide to promote SME stock listings, at a meeting of the SME Finance Forum on the eve of an Informal Competitiveness Council on 2 and 3 May in Dublin.

The SME Finance DFI Meeting 2012 builds on last year’s meeting co-hosted by IFC and the French Agency for Development in Paris and, as such, reports on progress made on a number of key recommendations, including the creation of the new SME Finance Initiative and the SME Finance Forum.

This key action will be implemented in close cooperation with the SME Finance Forum.

As announced by Vice-President Tajani at the SME Finance Forum conference held in Brussels on 6 May 2010, this permanent SME Finance Forum was set up to monitor the market situation and to encourage new approaches to improve access to finance for SMEs.

Moreover, this Council decision is part of the European growth initiative. The priority areas for action, which have already demonstrated their importance in underpinning the recovery in economic activity and employment and in facilitating the participation of European enterprises, in particular SMEs, in the large European market, are: - Improving the administrative and legal environment of enterprises, including in the field of indirect taxation, so as to reduce the costs imposed on SMEs by Community legislation (continuation of work on administrative simplification in conjunction with the Member States, assessment of the impact of Community legislation on enterprises, and improvement in the regular consultations with organizations represe ...[+++]nting SMEs); - Qualitative development of the Euro-Info-Centre (EIC) network: The principal task will be to improve the quality and relevance of information provided by the centres and to expand the network by strengthening the relay points of existing EICs and opening correspondence centres outside the Community; 1 COM(92) 470 final, 13 January 1993. - Qualitative development of confidential and non-confidential partner-search networks: The main aim will be to increase the capacity of the BRE networks (Business Cooperation Centre - non- confidential) and of the BC-Net (Business Cooperation Network - confidential) inside and outside the Community, to improve the quality of services provided and to intensify cooperation between the two networks; - Stepping up activities to put businessmen in direct contact with one another: This will involve continuing, improving and expanding the Europartenariat programmes (Objective 1 - regions whose development is lagging behind; Objective 2 - regions affected by industrial decline; Objective 5(b) - rural areas) and Interprise (all regions, with possible sectoral specialization) and to stimulate trans- national subcontracting following the Pan-European Forum on Subcontracting held in Madrid ...

It should also be noted that : several examples of successful projects ("success stories") will be presented; a free of charge pre-screening service will be offered by the Commission departments to SMEs with ideas of proposals; a series of panel workshops will provide participating SMEs with information on the various Community RTD programmes; an exhibition will offer SMEs the possibility to meet with participants in Community RTD programmes as well as with other actors involved; SMEs already involved in research projects at a European level will be given the opportunity to meet representatives from venture capital organisations and experts in the field of technology transfer and intellectual property rights. Practical information : The Conference, the In ...[+++]formation Forum and the Exhibition will be held in the Brussels Congress Centre.