Traduction de «cabinet-conseil concordia des petites entreprises » (Français → Anglais) :

- strengthen the review of national developments by prioritising a selected number of Charter areas each year and, in the framework of the European Charter requirements, report on progress made in creating a more favourable environment for entrepreneurship and the competitiveness of small enterprises, using, inter alia, appropriate and effective indicators, in order to allow the Council, meeting before the Spring European Council, to assess progress over time and discuss future strategy on entrepreneurship and small firms policy;

The Council also invited Member States and the Commission to give new momentum to the promotion of entrepreneurship and small businesses by setting quantitative and qualitative targets in the framework of the European Charter for Small Enterprises in order to allow an assessment of progress made over time before the Spring European Council in 2004.

(11) It is appropriate to place special emphasis on the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), bearing in mind the European Charter for Small Enterprises endorsed by the Feira European Council, whose principles and eighth line for action aim to strengthen the technological capacity of small enterprises, and to facilitate access to the best research and technology.

With this communication, entitled "The Craft Industry and Small Enterprises, Keys to Growth and Employment in Europe" and which is addressed to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, the Commission responds to the Council's request, formulated in its Resolution of 10 October 1994, to analyse the results of the Second European Conference on the Craft Industry and Small Enterprises, held in Berlin on 26 and 27 September 1994, and to present a report on the follow-up whic ...[+++]h it intends to give to these conclusions and on any initiatives which could be recommended to the Member States.

Under the title "Craft and small enterprises, the key to growth, employment and innovation", the European Commission, in conjunction with the German Presidency of the Council, is providing a forum in which craft and small enterprises can exchange experience.

The Council also adopted the following conclusions on SME access to financial markets: "COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS ON THE FEASIBILITY OF CREATING A EUROPEAN CAPITAL MARKET FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES In the light of the debate held on the basis of the Commission's communication on the creation of a European capital market for smaller entrepreneurially managed growth companies and given the opportunity to promote the setting up of innovative projects in any area of activity, strengthening these enterprises' capital structures, in order to facilitate the development of European SMEs and create new jobs in the Union, THE COUNCIL: - welc ...[+++]omes the European Commission's initiative to promote the debate on the creation of new Europe-wide capital markets; - invites the Commission to go deeper into the conclusions of its communication and report to the next Industry Council on ways to overcome the various obstacles currently existing in the Member States, including obstacles inhibiting the channelling of funds of institutional and private investors, in order to support the creation of secondary European Capital Markets for SMEs, taking into account the national systems and experiences already under way; - submits to the Commission's consideration the advisability of encouraging investors to join the European secondary capital market in order to mobilise additional financial resources for European SMEs; - urges the Commission to cooperate with Member States in order to overcome the difficulties that exist in making cross-border security transactions, by facilitating progress towards the future operation of a pan-European secondary capital Market, such as EASDAQ (European Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotation).