The European Commission has set itself the objective of strengthening the EU’s economy and recognises part of meeting this objective will involve fostering innovation (e.g. new products, services and processes).

Companies regularly raise concerns that EU regulations are acting as barriers to innovation. Following the remark by the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, that “we need to do more to create a regulatory environment for innovation to flourish”, the Commission is looking into this issue to identify any specific regulatory barriers companies are facing when seeking to innovate.

As part of its role in helping UK firms to innovate and grow internationally, the Enterprise Europe Network, working in conjunction with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, would like to support the Commission in this work and help identify EU regulatory barriers companies based in the UK are facing when they are seeking to innovate. In the effort to help the Commission, it is important to find out more about any specific EU regulations which are hindering innovation, what the barrier is and what impact it is having. Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey (details of company and contact names are for our information only and will not be passed to the Commission): http://www.bradford.gov.uk/surveys/eubar/are_eu_regulations_acting_as_barriers_to_innovation.htm