03/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - Christoph Leitl, EUROCHAMBRES President, insists in a declaration on the need for the European Parliament to continue, as it has done today, to urge for greater awareness of the problems of small and medium-sized enterprises in the "Basel II" legislation on capital adequacy. The Commission's proposal on transposition of the "Basel II" rules into Community law does not sufficiently take into account the structure of the economy and that of the EU banking sector,...