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Questionnaire for SBS Members or Stakeholders

Identification of main Topics of interest for SMEs

Small Business Standards (SBS), the European associations representing SMEs in European and international standardisation, is currently carrying out a study to identify key areas of standardisation for SMEs. The number of standards developed or revised each year is constantly increasing, at the same time SMEs are active in a big variety of sectors. By contributing to this questionnaire you are helping SBS to identify key areas of relevance and strategic importance to SMEs from the standardisation point of view so that SBS can concentrate its efforts on these areas in the future.

This questionnaire is addressed to SBS Members and European and national stakeholders (SMEs and SMEs associations).

The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify strategic standardisation topics, based on your experience and inputs from your stakeholders. In addition, to confirm the criteria to be used to prioritise sectors of particular incidence for SMEs (being aware that SMEs are mostly present in all sectors).  
You are kindly requested to identify yourself in the questionnaire, to understand the origin of the comments, but answers will be treated in an aggregated and confidential way.
1.Identification of the SBS Member or Stakeholder
2.Is your organization:
3.In case you are a company, can you please indicate:
4.Sector or Sectors covered by your organisation
5.If you consider your sector is not well represented in the options above, please indicate in the textbox
6.Country or Countries for which you represent SMEs (SBS members, or members of SBS members or other SMEs national associations).
In the case of companies, please indicate the main markets you are selling your products or delivering services to.
7.For sector-specific associations only: Do you know which is the approximate % of GDP covered by the sector(s) you represent?
8.For sector-specific associations only: Do you know the % of employment in the EU of the sectors you represent?
9.Sector-specific associations  OR COMPANIES: Do you know if there is a particular concentration of SMEs in various links of the value chain of your sector(s)
10.Sector-specific associations only: Intra-EU trade
11.Which indicator do you use to estimate the degree of importance of your sector(s) for SMEs? Can you give the indicator and the value applicable to the sectors you cover?
12.Please provide three Standardisation Topics for which you consider SMEs are mostly affected. Note: Please provide Topics of interest (i.e. Building Information Modelling - BIM is a Topic) and not Sectors (such as Construction, Food and Agriculture, Consumer Services, etc).
13.Please select the main topics of interest for SMEs from the list below (you may select as many as you consider).
14.Please explain why you chose the above selected topics
15.Which new standardisation trends will possibly affect SMEs in the future?
Current Progress,
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