Je crois que, en les supprimant, nous avons effectivement écarté le risque que les petites et moyennes entreprises soient exclues du marché, ce qui se produirait à coup sûr si elles étaient appelées à concurrencer, conformément aux procédures complexes de la directive, les grandes entreprises au niveau communautaire.
I think that, in doing away with thresholds, we really have warded off the danger of excluding small and medium-sized enterprises from the market, which is, of course, what would happen if they had to compete, with the complex procedures in the directive, with large companies at Community level.
