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SME Feedback

We help small and medium-sized companies to take their ideas from the field to the European institutions.

What is SME Feedback?

SME Feedback is a tool of the European Commission (EC) and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), which enables small and medium-sized enterprises to share concrete experiences of the functioning of the European Union’s Single Market. It aims to capture real obstacles that companies face in practice (for example when trading across borders, meeting regulatory requirements or benefiting from European programmes) and to translate these experiences into suggestions for European policy makers.

Thanks to the SME Feedback, the voice of SMEs reaches directly the institutions that decide on the rules that affect their daily operations.

Why is SME feedback important?

The experience of SMEs play a key role in European Union policy-making. They bring a cross-industry and cross-regional perspective to decision-making processes and help to better assess the real impact of European rules.

On the basis of these inputs, the European Commission may:

• Modify or simplify rules that place unnecessary burdens on business,
• identify specific barriers to the free movement of goods, services and capital,
• better target support programmes and financial instruments for SMEs,
• better understand the impact of new regulations on the day-to-day running of companies.

From the perspective of the entire EEN network, SME Feedback is proof that the network is not only a provider of advisory services, but also a channel through which companies can influence the business environment in Europe.

The AMSP CR is responsible for collecting, analysing and forwarding suggestions from companies to the European Commission.

How SME Feedback works in practice

The European Commission regularly launches public consultations, questionnaires and thematic challenges on issues such as proposals for new legislation, administrative burdens, the functioning of the European Single Market or specific EU policies (digitalisation, the Green Deal, etc.)

You can get involved in these activities:

• by completing a short questionnaire,
• participation in a targeted survey on a specific topic,
• by giving feedback based on your specific experience.

We can help you interpret the questionnaires and formulate feedback in a way that is understandable, specific and actionable for the European Commission. The Commission then uses your input to adapt legislation, assess the impact of existing rules or prepare new measures.

What can you gain from joining SME Feedback?

By participating in European Commission surveys or questionnaires, you can:

• highlight specific obstacles that are holding your business back,
• influence the shape of European rules that affect you directly,
• help simplify administration and improve the business environment in the EU,
• get an overview of the issues the European Commission is currently working on.

Your feedback is also very valuable to us and helps us better understand the needs of Czech companies and represent them effectively at European level.

Currently open survey and questionnaires

Solving problems with your rights in the EU

If you live, work or do business in another EU country, you may face discriminatory requirements or unfair treatment from your local authority . This can make life and business abroad very difficult. So if you, as an EU citizen or a business based in the EU, have experienced a failure by a public authority to follow European law, contact SOLVIT.

Tip from consultants from AMSP ČR

“European rules are not made in a vacuum. That’s why every questionnaire filled in or concrete suggestion made to the European Commission has a meaning. The more concrete experiences and examples from practice you share, the more chance you have to positively influence the environment in which you do business.”

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