Regional Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Investment Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa (REGMIFA) shall be a specialised investment fund that will be established in Mauritius, promoted by a donor consortium composed of leading Donors/DFIs and IFIs and led by German Financial Cooperation (KfW), in order to enhance long and medium financial needs of local financial intermediaries providing funding to Micro, Small and Medium Entreprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. [+]
Aplicación del programa comunitario sobre la Estrategia de Lisboa: Financiar el crecimiento de las PYME. Añadir valor europeo (COM (2006) 349 final, 29.6.2006)
Directrices comunitarias ayudas estatales y capital riesgo para pymes
Directrices comunitarias sobre ayudas estatales y capital riesgo para pequeñas y medianas empresas (DOUE C 194/02, 18.8.2006)
Key figures on European Business - with a special feature section on SMEs - Data 1995-2005.
This publication summarises the main features of European business and its different activities in a concise and simple manner. It includes a special feature section on SMEs, which presents an analysis of the different characteristics of micro, small, medium and large enterprises. The publication is also intended to function as a showcase for and introduction to the data available in this field. The focus is on structural business statistics: both the more traditional business statistics which are disseminated regularly, but also specific information compiled on a multi-yearly basis and the latest results from development projects on topics of key political interest. [+]
EU-GO España. Ventanilla única de la Directiva de Servicios
La ventanilla única de la Directiva de Servicios es un proyecto del Ministerio de la Presidencia que responde al mandato de la Directiva 2006/123/CE relativa a los servicios en el mercado interior. El portal está dirigido a los empresarios y emprendedores (prestadores de servicios) de los Estados Miembros de la Unión Europea que quieran realizar su actividad empresarial en España. También está dirigido a los consumidores (destinatarios de los servicios) de dichas actividades empresariales para proporcionarles la información sobre las asociaciones y formas de reclamación. [+]
Nuria Villalba Villalba
Dinámica del tamaño empresarial en España y en la Unión Europea: Regularidades empíricas
Economía industrial. #374. 2009
En este trabajo se analizan los cambios ocurridos en la distribución del empleo por tamaños de las empresas privadas no agrarias de la UE-15 durante los años noventa, a partir de las estadísticas que proporciona el Observatorio Europeo de la Pyme. Se completa la descripción, para los años setenta y ochenta, con datos relativos a la industria manufacturera de varios países de la UE, EEUU y Japón. Este objetivo ha permitido describir la posición internacional que ocupa la distribución de tamaños de las unidades productivas españolas e identificar los cambios que se han producido en dicha distribución durante los años mencionados. Los principales hallazgos que documenta la información presentada son la reducción del tamaño medio de las unidades productivas y el desplazamiento de la distribución de tamaños. [+]
Ten European companies were shortlisted today for the European Business Awards for the Environment. The finalists represent companies from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, Turkey and the UK. The prizes, awarded by the European Commission every two years, single out European companies that have made an outstanding contributions to sustainable development in four categories - management, products, processes, and international cooperation. The four winners will be announced at a ceremony on 2 June 2010 during Green Week, the Commission's major annual environmental conference and exhibition event in Brussels. The awards go to companies that spur economic growth by contributing to innovation and competitiveness while also protecting the environment. (RAPID, IP/10/275, 12.3.2010)
Quarterly Panorama of European business statistics - 1-2010
The Quarterly Panorama of European business statistics is a tool to follow the evolution of the short-term trends of the European economy in the industrial, construction, trade and other service sectors. The panorama is now a web-publication available also through a dedicated section on the Eurostat web-site. [+]
¿Quiere saber qué hace la UE para impulsar a las pequeñas empresas de toda Europa y en el mercado global, así como lo que puede hacer por la suya? Este portal recoge toda la información que proporciona la UE acerca de y para las PYME, que va de consejos prácticos a cuestiones relacionadas con las políticas en esta materia, de puntos de contacto locales a enlaces para ayudarle a establecer redes de colaboración. [+]
Business registers - recommendations manual
Eurostat Methodology Workin Papers.
All Member States of the European Union maintain business registers for statistical purposes as a tool for the preparation and coordination of surveys, as a source of information for the statistical analysis of the business population and its demography, for the use of administrative data, and for the identification and construction of statistical units. The Regulation 177/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council (EC) sets out a common framework for the harmonisation of the national business registers for statistical purposes and Article 7 of the Regulation asks for the publication of a business register recommendation manual. The manual aims to explain the reasoning behind the provisions of the Regulation. It aims to provide the extra information required for the correct and consistent interpretation of the Regulation in all countries. This second edition of the manual is derived from the first one published in 2003 and replaces it. The manual has been updated in close cooperation with the Member States. [+]