Committee of the Regions
Brussels, 23 October 2014

• EER label is supported by UEAPME,
Eurochambres and Social Economy Europe
• UEAPME
• the employer’s organisation representing the interests of European crafts, trades and SMEs
• 80 members
• over 12M enterprises with nearly 55M employees

• APCMA and the skilled crafts chambers network
• 129 local and regional chambers
• 126 training centers
• about 100 000 apprentices each year
• Craft-type enterprises
• 1 070 000 companies
• EUR 300 billions turnover
• 510 activities in construction, services, production and food sectors

• White Paper on multilevel governance
• inclusive decision making process
• foster vertical and horizontal partnership
• SBA: involving stakeholders closely when developing SME policy
• Code of conduct on partnership
• partnership and multilevel governance
• “balanced representation of large, medium, small and microenterprises, together with social economy”

Involve all relevant stakeholders in the shaping of regional policies
• all phases : design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation
• diversity of stakeholders
 local authorities
 SME, crafts, social economy…
 education and training centers

Stakeholders involvement (1/2)
• letters of support
• integrated and coherent regional vision, involving partnerships with stakeholders
• governance mechanism
• demonstrate how economic and social partners are involved in the legal and operational process of decisions

Stakeholders involvement (2/2)
• division of tasks among regional/local authorities and stakeholders
• actions
• communication and inclusiveness

Contact details
Laure-Anne Copel, European affairs unit
+33 (0)1 44 43 10 03 – copel@apcma.fr