Examples of using Small and mediumsized in English and their translations into Finnish
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Small and mediumsized undertakings, p. 19-8.
Regional development and small and mediumsized enterprises.
Small and mediumsized enterprises form the backbone of the European economy.
My second point, Mr President,concerns small and mediumsized enterprise within the framework programme, the generator of jobs.
Small and mediumsized enterprises, in particular, are at risk of facing difficulties.
A third point that we were very concerned about was that small and mediumsized enterprises are taken into consid eration in the framework research programme.
Small and mediumsized enterprises(SMEs) in the productive sector are vital to economic well-beingand the Structural Funds should aim to support this sector.
Christos Papoutsis: energy and Euratom Supply Agency, small and mediumsized enterprises(SMEs), and tourism, distributive trades and cooperatives.
Kirsten Jensen and Blak(PSE), in writing.-(DA) The Danish Social Democrats have today voted for the three reports on small and mediumsized companies.
But each small and mediumsized company which is newly created means a new job every time.
A more interactive modelhas emerged in recent years that recognises the importance of the environment in which businesses,and particularly small and mediumsized businesses, operate.
Fewer than 30 per cent of small and mediumsized companies in Europe are run by womenand women are responsible for only one third of business start-ups.
Many EU policies contribute to economic competitiveness: the single market, competition, research and technological development(RTD), and small and mediumsized enterprises SMEs.
We are talking about eighteen million small and mediumsized firms, which directly employ seventy million people, 70% of the European Union's current labour force.
Among the 31 separate policy areas in the negotiations, the three chapters of most direct interest to business are the free movement of goods,industrial policy and small and mediumsized enterprises.
Supporting small and mediumsized enterprises(SMEs) and attracting outside investment are key ways in which cohesion policy helps to boost regional economies.
The problem affects more than 400,000 businesses, most of them small and mediumsized, which in total employ more than ten million people, with very different techniques.
The INTERPRISE programme(Initiative to Encourage Partnership between Industries and/or Services in Europe) is designed to support local,regional and national actions aimed at stimulating cooperation between small and mediumsized enterprises in Europe.
In particular, small and mediumsized enterprises and especially'micro' firms of 10 employees or less are those most at risk from inadvertent or unplanned legislative burdens.
In its recommendation2003/361/EC of 6 May(4), the Commissiondefined the terms micro-, small and mediumsized enterprises used in Community policies and the thresholds for distinguishing them.
Small and mediumsized enterprises must be able to reap the benefits from the new climate created by the single currency in the immediate futureand they must be helped to do so by national governments and state agencies.
Inspite of all our support for SMEs and inspite of all the Community's eloquent words we see a process of centralization every where,a process during which small and mediumsized undertakings are being forced into dependency on larger undertakings.
Support for companies, especially small and mediumsized enterprises;•improved marketing of Austria's‘competence for theeast' in the international competition to attract business investment;•initial and further training activities.
In the future, we will have to work, for example, to speed up payments traffic and make the collection of crossborder payments a more effective exercise,allowing small and mediumsized enterprises to venture more readily into the European emarket.
Our opinion is that small and mediumsized companies are particularly important from the point of view of employment- incidentally this is surely a subject for the employment summit next week- and that in this context they must be encouraged more strongly.
I would particularly like to highlight one of the proposals put forward, because I feel it is especially relevant for the sector of business which is most important for economic development and employment in the European Union: small and mediumsized undertakings.
In this connection I would like to highlight an important point: although the report underlines the usefulness of aid in the common interest, in important fields like regional assistance,research and development, small and mediumsized enterprises, training, energy, energy saving and the environment, it deplores the fact that this type of horizontal aid in the general interest is decreasing while aid to individual companies is increasing.
In 2001, the Commission was mainly engaged in the field of enterprise policy in implementing the strategy defined by the Lisbon European Council with a view to establishing a favourable climate for thecreation of innovatory businesses, particularly small and mediumsized enterprises.
As part of the extension of the EUROPARTENARIAT programme, a highly appreciated formula in the European Union, MEDPARTENARIAT is an initiative of the European Commission designed to promote cooperation between small and mediumsized enterprises of the EU and third countries of the Mediterranean Basin by supporting direct contacts between heads of enterprises.
Cresson, Member of the Commission.-(FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is aware of the problems which UEFA's decision to bar the winners of the Coca-Cola Cup from participating in the UEFA cup causes small and mediumsized clubs which participate in this national competition.