The purpose of this study is to provide the Commission with the information necessary for the assessment of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of a possible extension of the scope of the EU product safety legislation (ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU, Pressure Equipment Directive...

The BREF entitled 'Refining of Mineral Oil and Gas' forms part of a series presenting the results of an exchange of information between EU Member States, the industries concerned, non-governmental organisations promoting environmental protection, and the Commission, to draw up, review, and where...

This report contributes to the literature by estimating farm-level impacts of PO membership, as well the efficiency of support granted to POs under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). We employ the propensity score matching and difference in differences (PSM-DID) approach, using 939...

This analysis presents a number of correlations between EU Member States (MS) judicial systems and indicators of firm performance. To measure the functioning of the justice systems, we use indicators of efficiency, quality and independence. To measure economic development, business statistics...

This report explores the latest available statistics up to 2014 for the business demography of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) economic sector in Europe. It combines relevant databases which provide insights into the Member States' ICT performance. The first four sections of...

This methodological report explains the data sources and methods used by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to compile the dataset on structural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) indicators in the annual SME Performance Review, and commissioned by the Directorate General for Internal...

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe. We study performance across...

The Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) reflects the Commission's political will to recognise the central role of SMEs in the EU economy. The calculation of 2012 SBA principles has moved from a one way design process of the previous versions to an iterative process with the JRC (since 2011) with...

This report provides evidence on the inventive output of ICT R&D activity in the EU, the US and other regions and proposes an economic modelling framework for analysing the impact of the R&D processes. It uses patent statistics as a measure of output of the R&D process. According to the...