Small Business and Competition

This handbook summarizes the essentials of competition law as it relates to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), explaining what it involves and how it works.

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The creation of the single market opened up a wealth of opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) to enter new markets throughout the community without cumbersome trading constraints. However to protect the consumer the Commission has drawn up a series of rules, some of which have direct relevance to SMEs and some which do not. This handbook summarizes the essentials of competition law as it relates to SMEs explaining what it involves and how it works.