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The European Commission’s Enterprise DG has its own site for SME policy at http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/entrepreneurship/ index.htm which provides information on the various support programmes. SME TechWeb is the Commission’s site for helping SMEs innovate and internationalise, and especially to take part in the Sixth R&D Framework Programme.
Enlargement DG has a comprehensive summary of the acquis that the new member states have had to take on board: the provisions applying to SMEs are discussed at http:// www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/ negotiations/chapters/chap16/index.htm. Beyond the Commission, UEAPME, the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, is the employer's organisation representing the interests of crafts, trades and SMEs in the whole of Europe. Its ENTER project aims to raise awareness of the impact EU enlargement is having on SMEs.
Another non-profit body, ISME, the International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, aims to stimulate transnational co-operation and public and private partnership in the field of innovation and technology transfer to SMEs.
Finally ENSR, the European Network for Social and Economic Research, is a network of member organisations specialising in applied social and economic research with a special focus on SMEs and entrepreneurship. They prepared the report on enlargement featured in this edition of Euroabstracts. | 
