Brussels, 08/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - "The present direction of the Convention will not bring the EU closer to reaching the Lisbon Targets" and has so far "given a minor importance to entrepreneurship and the creation of a business friendly environment", regrets a UEAPME (European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) press release. To deal with this, the UEAPME is calling on the Convention drafters to "put entrepreneurship and the Lisbon Targets high on their agenda" and "a general clause in the objectives part of the new treaty mentioning the importance of SMEs in Europe", and "a clause in the industrial chapter which explicitly puts forward the idea that the EU will avoid imposing administrative, financial and juridical burdens that could hinder the development of SMEs". The UEAPME also notes that it recently presented some amendments it would like to see added to the treaty to Commissioner Michel Barnier.