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"Mr President, I should like to give out some information on the network dedicated precisely to providing information to small and medium-sized enterprises.
By means of this network, we have a presence in 51 countries, with around 600 contact points and over 3 000 professionals to its credit. I would say that Enterprise Europe Network is the most important European, if not global, network helping small and medium-sized enterprises. We have a presence in all 27 Member States and in eight third countries taking part in the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme. I am referring to Croatia, Israel and Turkey.
Here are some additional figures on the advice and information provided, including that related to the internal market. Around 300 000 businesses have made direct use of this kind of service, while 600 000 others have taken part in events organised with the same objective; 225 000 have used the special advice service on subjects such as access to finance, intellectual property, business development at the European and international level, and innovation through the adoption of new work methods and new technologies.
Every year, the network facilitates the conclusion of around 2 500 formal cross-border deals between businesses, giving them benefits in terms of maintaining turnover, employment and investment levels. We have also received 10 000 comments to date from businesses giving us their opinions on policy, legislative initiatives and European-level programmes.
I think that amounts to an effective network, even if we consider – naturally – the need to implement and further strengthen its actions, since the continuation of the Enterprise Europe Network is also guaranteed in the framework of the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) 2014-2020. We are therefore asking Parliament in the context of the debate on the Financial Perspective to support our proposal, since I believe that it takes the direction that Parliament itself has emphasised in its question and also in the previous intervention from Mr Harbour."@en1
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