PIN-SME

Brussels, 15 June, 2008 - PIN-SME decided to support a guideline document edited by NORMAPME that lays down the “General principles to be followed in order to make e-invoicing adapted to the reality of SMEs”. This document is to be presented at the e-Invoicing Experts Group set up by DG Enterprise at the European Commission.

Brussels, 31 May, 2008 – After a wide SME consultation NORMAPME and PIN-SME members approved a position paper that summarizes the views of SMEs on the Telecommunications Regulation proposed by the European Commission.

Brussels, 17 May, 2008 - The conference was organised by the European Commission's "Sectoral e-Business Watch" programme, which presented the results of its recent studies (2007/08) on e-business adoption in specific sectors. Invited keynote speakers from industry, government and academe offered complementary views for discussion.

Valencia, 10 April, 2008 - The Valencia regional authority (Generalitat Valenciana), together with eBSN, the European e-Business Support Network (eBSN) for SMEs of the European Commission, organised a workshop in Valencia on the title “Competitiveness and new technologies in the age of globalization”. eBSN was created as the answer offered by the eEurope 2005 Action Plan to the needs underlined by the Industry European Council held in 2002. Already then, it stressed the need to intensify dialogue, exchange regularly experience, identify specific goals for e-business policies and to share best practices.

Hannover, 5 March, 2008  - The Pan European ICT & eBusiness Network for SMEs (PINSME) has organized a successful conference on the subject "ICT SMEs - better, faster, more competitive" at the Deutsche Messe AG in Hannover, Germany, on 5 March 2008 during CeBIT. Interventions were delivered by high level EU policy makers and representatives of the ICT industry including Mr Rudolf Strohmeier, Head of Cabinet EU-Commissioner Mrs Viviane Reding, Mr Andrea Benassi, Secretary General of the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (UEAPME), Mr Johann Steszgal, President of PIN-SME and Mr Andreas Naunin from SAP.