More than twenty European start-up associations published a non-paper document on Wednesday 23 October calling on the Commission to introduce a “28th European regime” in order to “unlock the capabilities of European businesses and enable them to finally benefit from a true single market”.
The creation of this regime is a political ambition, mentioned by Ursula von der Leyen in July after her re-election as head of the European Commission as a “new EU-wide legal status”.
It would establish a common legal and administrative framework for start-ups in the 27 EU countries, to facilitate their growth and development.
In this document, the signatories propose a number of avenues to be explored by the Commission, with the main aim of “increasing the competitiveness [of European start-ups] on a global scale”.
In particular, they are calling for the standardisation of various statutes and legislation, including “public and private procurement, labour laws, contract laws, uniformisation of standards, investments, and taxation”.
According to the signatories of the document, in order to be as useful as possible, this new regime must take into account all the dimensions of start-ups, namely their massive use of digital technology, their small size and sometimes their low capital, their preferred areas of activity and their interoperability.
The signatories also call for a pan-European system to develop transnational investments in order to stimulate growth within the EU.
See the document: https://aeur.eu/f/e07 (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)