EU regulations impede rather than facilitate business operations

Only a small proportion of European microtechnology organizations appreciate how EU regulations facilitate trade and collaboration within the EU single market: only 14% say that EU regulations and directives partly have a facilitating effect on their business operations. More than half (58%) of the responding organizations feel that EU regulations and directives are impeding their business operations.

EU regulations affect most of the European microtechnology industry. The industry is largely international: more than 90% of the companies and institutes act on an international level, almost all of them within the European single market.

Source: IVAM Survey 2018