Traduction de «moyenne entreprise » (Français → Anglais) :

Indeed, we are well aware that we need to adapt our rules to the specific circumstances of small and medium-sized enterprises, and that is why we very strongly support the plan for small and medium-sized enterprises that has been proposed by the Commission and endorsed by the Council.

‘micro, small and medium — sized enterprise’: a micro, small or medium — sized enterprise as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises

6. Recommends that, when a country decides to carry out a privatisation, the Commission should advise that it be done if possible by substantially involving domestic investors and that it should devote particular attention to ‘small’ decentralised solutions which are worked out by developing countries and whose beneficiaries are small and medium-sized undertakings (SMUs) and micro-enterprises, which play an essential part in the economic development of developing countries, create many of the jobs and generate a substantial proportion of national income, whereas ‘large-scale’ solutions which seek to bring about take-overs of State-owned ...[+++]enterprises by multinational corporations and groups often have adverse side-effects; and to give special attention also to the possible role of European small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in all aspects of cooperation programmes; believes that European SMEs possess specialised knowledge and experience relevant to these programmes, but are often left out due to lack of knowledge about programme participation possibilities and lack of visibility to third country partners; recommends that appropriations are provided for the provision of advisory services and training for small and medium-sized enterprises in the countries of Latin America and Asia by older volunteer experts from the European Union who come under the ESSN (European Senior Services Network);

3. Stresses that financial instruments to promote small and medium-sized business must be in line with the requirements of such businesses, in other words that they must be geared to the needs of SMEs in terms of transparent access to the relevant information, to straightforward application, authorisation and evaluation procedures and to the need for money at short notice – in particular it must possible for SMEs to find out at an earlier stage whether they have any realistic chance of obtaining support; notes that small firms which have the potential for support still too often make no progress because – owing to lack of time and staff ...[+++] – they are unable to access Community funds; points in this connection to the positive role played by the Euro-Info-Centres, which could be expanded still further;

(8) In order to eliminate differences that might give rise to distortions of competition, in order to facilitate coordination between different Community and national initiatives concerning small and medium-sized enterprises, and for reasons of administrative clarity and legal certainty, the definition of "small and medium-sized enterprises" used in this Regulation should be that laid down in Commission Recommendation 96/280/EC of 3 April 1996 concerning the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises(5). That definition was also used in the Community guidelines on State aid for small and medium-sized enterprises(6).

Each enterprise must be independent - i.e. 25 % of the capital or the voting rights may not be owned by one enterprise, or jointly by several enterprises, falling outside the definition of an SME or a small enterprise.