European Parliament
President.
Question No 8 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou 
Subject: Initiatives in favour of SMEs
At the Barcelona European Council Member States were asked to speed up the implementation of the European Charter for SMEs and the Commission was asked to draw up a Green Paper on the entrepreneurial spirit and SMEs. As part of the Greek Presidency, does the Council intend to adopt specific strategies and measures to give a new impetus to SMEs? Does it intend to urge the Commission to present this Green Paper before the end of the Greek Presidency together with a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the participation of SMEs in existing Community support programmes for SMEs and of the results of such participation?

