De voorzitter van de Commissie, de heer José Manuel Barroso, heeft aangegeven om welke omvang van ondernemingen het in de Small Business Act werkelijk gaat. Hij sprak namelijk over ondernemingen die volledig profijt trekken van de interne markt en zich op de internationale markt begeven om uit te groeien tot mondiaal concurrerende ondernemingen.
The President of the Commission, José Manuel Barroso, set out the real scales of the businesses to which the act relates, which he defined as those which benefit fully from the single market and expand on to international markets in order to develop into global competitive undertakings, and Commissioner Günter Verheugen highlighted the reactionary ideological tenor of the act by emphasising that what is important in it is the social recognition of businessmen and the attraction of starting a business career, in order to change the negative perception of the role of businessmen and the assumption of entrepreneurial risk.Europarl8 Europarl8