A difficult topic for us Smart Regulation experts is how widely should we use exemptions to ensure the best possible effects to regulation. That is the question posed by the European Commission's proposals in November 2011 to alleviate the regulatory burden on SMEs, and already discussed on this blog, when the ACCA (Chartered Accountants) published its position paper recommending that ""Smart regulators must be able to tell regulatory burdens from regulatory capital."
Now the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EUAPME), a leading stakeholder organisation in Brussels, has also come out against the EC policy, explaining in a Position Paper issued 27 January why "exempting micro enterprises from EU legislation is not an option." While they welcome the recognition that compliance with regulation is more burdensome for small companies, UEAPME believe that "Standards and regulations which are related to the quality aspects of enterprises, their products and their services must also be respected by smaller enterprises, if they want to be successful and remain competitive on the market, even locally."
Now the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EUAPME), a leading stakeholder organisation in Brussels, has also come out against the EC policy, explaining in a Position Paper issued 27 January why "exempting micro enterprises from EU legislation is not an option." While they welcome the recognition that compliance with regulation is more burdensome for small companies, UEAPME believe that "Standards and regulations which are related to the quality aspects of enterprises, their products and their services must also be respected by smaller enterprises, if they want to be successful and remain competitive on the market, even locally."
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