EnviroHelp: A Support Package for EU Member States

Williamson David and Lynch-Wood Gary
Centre for Research into Corporate Responsibility and the Environment
Staffordshire University

Abstract

EnviroHelp is a support package for European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is the outcome of a three year research and development project that examined the environmental support needs of SMEs in the United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland and the Czech Republic. The research shows that European SMEs are compliance driven and that they urgently need regulatory compliance support. In responding to this identified need, EnviroHelp demonstrates that member states can provide valuable and user-friendly support to SMEs. It is argued that there is a pressing requirement to extend this service to all member states and that the EU should provide resources and assume responsibility for the on-going provision of this much needed service.

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